Behavior of "divine" proportions and the Bolton's index in dental measurements of subjects with malocclusion
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divine proportion, Bolton's index.Abstract
Patients came more and more frequently to Stomatology services to improve theesthetic feature. Among the more polemic methods for esthetics examination are
those based on the use of divine proportion, leading to carrying out of present
paper to assess the behavior of divine proportions in the dental measurements of
subjects with malocclusion using the Bolton's index. A cross-sectional and descriptive
study was conducted in second to fifth years students of the Stomatology Faculty of
La Habana from January, 2009 to January, 2010 using the plaster casts in 80 students
aged 18 to 25. Measurements of the mesio-distal width of teeth relating some
sections of them where were identified those en relation to the divine proportion
according the occlusion variable. The students presenting with malocclusion were
studied according the variation of Bolton's index. In the students with malocclusion,
there was predominance of Bolton's index favoring a great size of anteroinferior
teeth with ranks of divine proportion of 1.60.
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