Muhammad Masood Khan, Umar Nasir, Sadia Nisar Ahmed, Haseeb Ahmad, Afreenish Malik, Maidha Jadoon

Dental Aesthetic Self-Assessment among Dental Students

Muhammad Masood Khan, Umar Nasir, Sadia Nisar Ahmed, Haseeb Ahmad, Afreenish Malik, Maidha Jadoon



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ABSTRACT

Background: Satisfaction with dental appearance is significant amongst youths as decision concerning the individual features, of persons is inclined by their dental look in the lack of other data.

Aim: To govern the self-assessment dental look pleasure among dental students

Study Design: descriptive cross-sectional study

Place and Duration of Study: Khyber Medical University, Institute of Dental Sciences Kohat from 1st March 2021 to 31st October 2021.

Methodology: Two hundred and fifty students were enrolled. The history of jaw trauma or those getting or had received orthodontic management were excluded.

Results: There were 112 (44.8%) males and 138 (55.2) females with mean age was 21±1.30 years. One hundred and forty seven (58.8%) dental students had good psychological wellbeing concerning their dental aesthetic appearance whereas 73 (29.2%) dental students had satisfactory and 30 (12%) had poor psychological well-being concerning their dental looks.

Conclusion: More than 50% of the students stated happiness with their dental appearance. Male students were better gratified than the female students which are apparently due to the nature of women and the pressure and delusion of our culture that only good looking girls will find a groom with better future.

Keywords: Dental aesthetic, Self-assessment, Oral subjective Impact Scale (OASIS), Khyber Medical University- Institute of Dental Sciences (KMU-IDS)



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