Thresholds of Abnormality Perception in Facial Esthetics among Laypersons and Dental Professionals: Frontal Esthetics

Table 2

Means and SDs of the esthetic values for the baseline face symmetry image and the manipulated images as perceived by the four raters groups.

Images	Laypersons (N = 30)			GDPs (N = 30)			Orthodontists (N = 30)			OMFSs (N = 30)
	Mean	SD	Sig	Mean	SD	Sig	Mean	SD	Sig	Mean	SD	Sig
0 mm (baseline)	75.41	15.76	—	89.06	7.91	—	88.32	6.12	—	89.30	9.09	—
2 mm	67.68	15.95	866	80.39	11.98	0.627	76.36	8.41	0.008	72.80	18.05	0.007
4 mm	51.05	24.24	0.000	62.33	18.75	0.000	59.54	18.06	0.000	60.00	13.31	0.000
6 mm	50.05	20.50	0.000	36.22	20.70	0.000	48.04	17.06	0.000	46.50	10.43	0.000
8 mm	40.36	22.88	0.000	25.44	13.24	0.000	34.64	14.02	0.000	41.85	15.05	0.000
10 mm	30.86	16.97	0.000	18.11	12.12	0.000	28.96	13.11	0.000	38.45	13.23	0.000

indicates significance at as a result of Tukey post hoc test. indicates first significance appeared compared to the baseline image.