Evaluation of Coincidence between Facial and Dental Midlines in Relation to Esthetics - A Retrospective Study

The current world that we live in is a world filled with comparison and high expectations. Previously, when a patient visited a dentist, the complaint would be in relation to lack of function. Nowadays, people with a set of good teeth walk into the clinic with the desire of making it more esthetic. Dental esthetics is a field of dentistry concerned especially with the appearance of dentition as achieved through its arrangement, form and color. From functional demands, the patients of the current world, have shifted their demands to esthetics. Esthetics can be simply detected based on the correlation of facial and dental midlines. The aim of the study was to determine the evaluation of coincidence between facial and dental midlines in relation to esthetics. This retrospective study was done by reviewing the patient case records. After reviewing 86,000 patient case sheet records, a sample size of 900 patients were selected. The photographs of those patients were retrieved from Dental Information Archiving Software. The photographic analysis was done by using photoshop software (Adobe). The obtained data was entered in Excel spreadsheet and imported to SPSS software version 20.0.