Comparison of the Perception of Laity, Dentists and Periodontists in Relation to Periodontal Aesthetics
Name: Sabrina Maciel Cavalcanti
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 16/12/2011
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Pimentel Rosetti | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Anuar Antonio Xible | Internal Examiner * |
| Celso Eduardo Sakakura | External Examiner * |
| Elizabeth Pimentel Rosetti | Advisor * |
Summary: The perception of what is aesthetic varies depending on who is evaluating, dentists know that aesthetic norms or patients completely lay in this regard. Given the different aesthetic perception found in the literature and found to be ideal for dentists and lay people, this study is to help dentists better understand their patients, by evaluating the aesthetic perception of lay people, periodontists and general dentists, compared to changes of periodontal conditions. Four young women smile into the Western aesthetic standard had your smile digitally photographed and modified, generating smile gums, gingival gap, reducing interproximal papilla and gingival recession. The photographs were evaluated by 150 individuals: 50 laymen, 50 general dentists and 50 periodontists, through evaluation sheets with a 100 mm visual analogue scale and an assessment scores. The results were that professionals perceive the change before the laity, in increasing the gummy smile with 1,5 mm and laity with 2,5 mm; gap gingival with 1,0 mm and laity people with 2,0 mm; loss of a central papilla with 1,5 mm and laity with 2,5 mm; unilateral gingival recession with 1,0 mm and laity with 2,5 mm and bilateral gingival recession with 1,0 mm and laity with 1,5 mm. General dentists perceived the loss of papilla between teeth battery upper lip before, with 1.0 mm, and periodontists and lay 1.5 mm. Periodontists females are more critical than males in most of the changes studied and laymen are more accepting smaller losses of papillae of the anterior teeth symmetrically that laywomen. It is concluded that the evaluators have different periodontal aesthetic perceptions it is important to know these differences to achieve patient satisfaction at the end of dental treatment.
