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Facial attractiveness of skeletal Class II patients before and after mandibular advancement surgery as perceived by people with different backgrounds
Abstract. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived level of improvement in facial attractiveness as assessed by people with different backg
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"There was a 100 per cent response to the survey from the 30 evaluators. The mean improvement in the attractiveness scores on the lateral view was 11.5 per cent (95 per cent confidence intervals: 9.4–13.5 per cent), while the mean improvement on the frontal view was 7.5 per cent (95 per cent confidence intervals: 5.4–9.5 per cent), the difference being statistically significant (P = 0.01)."
Groups of evaluators | Between group differences (P-values) | ||||||
Orthodontists | Laypersons | Art students | |||||
Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | ||
Overall face | |||||||
Frontal | 11.0 | 2.2 | 7.0 | 1.7 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 0.006 |
Lateral | 14.2 | 2.0 | 11.5 | 1.8 | 8.8 | 1.7 | |
Total | 12.6 | 1.5 | 9.2 | 1.2 | 6.7 | 1.2 | |
Chin | |||||||
Frontal | 9.5 | 2.0 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 0.341 |
Lateral | 14.2 | 2.4 | 13.1 | 1.8 | 11.8 | 2.2 | |
Total | 11.9 | 1.5 | 10.3 | 1.3 | 8.9 | 1.5 | |
Lips | |||||||
Frontal | 12.9 | 2.2 | 11.7 | 2.2 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 0.240 |
Lateral | 18.6 | 2.2 | 15.4 | 1.9 | 13.3 | 13.3 | |
Total | 15.8 | 1.6 | 13.5 | 1.5 | 12.1 |