Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate how women in general realize their own faces using the self-portraits and filling out the questionnaire. The selected subjects were 20 females aged from 18 to 24 years old who did not undergo any orthodontic treatment and are not dental students nor have any relation to dental business. 1. Two items related to the profile on the overall impression of their faces and the items related to nose, eyelid, forehead, cheek, teeth, and occlusion on the visual impression of their facial parts indicated high scores for dissatisfaction in the questionnaire. 2. The overall impression of the facial frontal view, the balance among the different facial portions, the mouth and its surrounding region showed high score for the awareness of the whole face. As to the awareness of the facial portions, teeth, dentition, nose, and the postero-inferior border of the jaw indicated high score. 3. Many subjects selected their frontal photos in the questionnaire requesting to choose one showing their unsatisfactory items. And many subjects choose their oblique photos as the satisfactory items. 4. 75% of the subjects selected their oblique pictures on requesting to choose one which they like best. 5. The position of lips in relation to the E-line showed 0.6mm posterior for the upper lip and 1.15mm anterior for the lower, respectively. Among the four lateral silhouettesCoriginal profile and three profiles which changed lips' position), 45.5% of subjects selected their original profiles when they were asked to choose which ones belong to them. From the present study, it can be concluded that females are capable to realize their own faces in the various directions. But only few people are concern about their profiles in their daily lives.
