Thresholds of Abnormality Perception in Facial Esthetics among Laypersons and Dental Professionals: Frontal Esthetics
Table 3
Means and SDs of the esthetic values for the baseline LAFH image and the manipulated decreased and increased LAFH 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
42
35.95
28.43
0.000
18.83
18.73
0.000
29.32
13.06
0.000
28.65
17.36
0.000
44
41.36
24.01
0.001
26.17
18.29
0.000
37.54
13.79
0.000
39.50
17.04
0.000
46
46.86
24.67
0.010
36.56
27.93
0.000
43.25
16.62
0.000
49.15
16.90
0.000
48
55.41
25.38
0.218
67.67
20.81
0.435
65.75
12.55
0.004
61.90
19.28
0.000
50 (baseline)
71.75
15.25
—
80.58
11.20
—
78.68
10.40
—
84.70
12.07
—
52
70.36
18.88
1.00
79.50
14.37
1.00
83.32
10.03
0.735
76.85
11.29
0.646
54
58.86
26.82
0.498
47.11
21.19
0.000
53.57
21.27
0.000
54.45
21.51
0.000
56
37.45
27.60
0.000
18.67
13.22
0.000
20.93
7.24
0.000
35.85
18.96
0.000
58
23.05
24.05
0.000
8.83
8.05
0.000
13.21
9.71
0.000
14.95
11.50
0.000
indicates significance at as a result of the Tukey post hoc test. indicates the first significance appeared compared to the baseline image.
