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)