Divine proportion in patients with Class II Division I Syndrome

Authors

  • Yaima Lazo Amador Hospital Militar Central "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto". La Habana
  • Gladys Otaño Laffitte Hospital Militar Central "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto". La Habana
  • Gloria Marín Manso Hospital Militar Central "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto". La Habana
  • Ángela Gutiérrez Rojas Hospital Militar Central "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto". La Habana

Keywords:

divine proportion, Class II Division I syndrome.

Abstract

The beauty and the facial harmony have a decisive function in social relationships
of man. The esthetic affection is the leading cause of consultation of patients to
Orthodontics. Divine Proportion is being more and more studied having diagnostic
and therapeutical aims related to the facial aesthetics. To assess the behavior of
Divine Proportion in facial measurements in patients presenting with Class II
Division I syndrome and its relation to sex a cross-sectional and descriptive study
was conducted for 2008-2010 in the Orthodontics Department of the Stomatology
Faculty of La Habana. The sample included 30 patients who fulfilled the inclusion
criteria studying the facial measurements by frontal and in profile photos. Study
demonstrated that the greater percentages were in the pairs related to the distance
between the lateral edge of eyes and the lateral margin of the nose (66.7 %); the
tragus basement ahd the lateral side of eye and from this one to nose tip and from
this one to chin (63.3 %). Few patients showed the Divine Proportion in the study
facial measurements without significant differences in its behavior in relation to
sex.

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2012-04-20

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Lazo Amador Y, Otaño Laffitte G, Marín Manso G, Gutiérrez Rojas Ángela. Divine proportion in patients with Class II Division I Syndrome. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 2012 Apr. 20 [cited 2025 Jun. 6];49(2):117-2. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2757

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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2012): APR- JUN

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Research Article

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