Year : 2018

Volume : Volume 9

Issue : Issue 2

Address for correspondence :
Dr. Niti Bansal.
NitiBansal@gmail.com

Abstract

Aim: To investigate the effectiveness and appropriateness of Golden proportion, Golden Percentage and Recurring Esthetic Dental, with respect to the widths of maxillary anterior teeth in individuals with natural dentition in Gujarati population, with the assistance of digital photographs and computer analysis Material and method: Standardized frontal images of 50 subjects were captured apart from measuring the width of maxillary anterior teeth. Thereafter, the three theories were applied, and the data was analyzed statistically. Results: The golden proportion was found to exist only in 10-36% of the subjects, between apparent maxillary anterior teeth in natural dentition. The value of the RED proportion increased as one moved from mesial to distal. Likewise, the results showed that golden percentage was rather constant in terms of relative tooth width. Central incisor represented 23%, lateral incisor 15% and canine 12% of the width of six maxillary anterior teeth, as viewed from the frontal aspect.  Conclusion: According to the study conducted, both, the theories of golden proportion and RED proportion were not found to be satisfactory for calculating the proportion of the successive widths of maxillary anterior teeth in the given population. Nonetheless, the golden percentage theory can be applied when the percentages are accustomed according to the ethnicity of the population.  More studies need to be conducted with a greater number of subjects to reach to this inference.

Keywords: correlation, intercanine distance, bizygomatic width, intercanthal width, Nigeria.