SELF - PERCEPTION AESTHETICS OF THE SMILE IN ADULT CUENCA-ECUADOR

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the self-perception of smile aesthetics in patients who attended dental care at the Catholic University of Cuenca. It was a descriptive study of current cross section, a survey was applied to 250 patients from 18 to 70 years of both sexes who attended the dental clinic of the teaching clinic of the Catholic University of Cuenca in the period March - July 2017, same which consists of 11 questions related to dental aesthetics. The result was that the self-perception of dental aesthetics was greater for the female sex by 12% more when compared to the male sex, where the factors of greatest affection were tooth color, position in which they are, size and formed in 41.29%, 29.03% and 22.58% respectively, those with the least affection were diastema and edentulism; The teeth most related to the self-perception of the aesthetics of the smile were the upper and lower central incisors. So we can say that all the patients examined self-perceived at least one factor that affected their smile aesthetics.