Evaluation of the compatibility of visagism concept with natural teeth

Abstract

Aim: The Visagism concept allegedly helps dental clinicians provide restorations that account not only for aesthetics, but also for the psychosocial features of the created image, which affect patients’ emotions, sense of identity, behaviour, and self-esteem. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the psychosocial features of The Visagism concept along with the patient’s natural tooth forms. Material & Methods: A questionnaire of 50 questions was applied to 50 participants to perform psychosocial analysis according to the Visagism concept. In addition, dental pho-tographs were taken from the participants, in which all the upper anterior teeth were clearly visible. Through these photographs, the natural tooth forms of the participants were blindly classified by two different dental clinicians. The relationship between the natural tooth forms and the dental composition determined by the temperaments of the participants were evaluated. Results: Psychosocial analysis questionnaire of participants were evaluated as 3 (%6) melancholic, 22 (% 44) sanguine, 7 (% 14) sanguine-choleric, 15 (%30) sanguine-melancholic and 3 (%6) sanguine-phlegmatic. After photographic analysis, natural teeth form of participants were classified as 10 (%20) oval, 4 (%8) triangular, 18 (%36) re-ctangular and 18 (%36) square. No statistically significant relationship was found between expected tooth forms by psychosocial analysis questionnaire and natural tooth forms of participants (p<0,005). Conclusions: Visagism concept is in very primitive state, so practical applications on individuals has not yet pro-duced. The recommendations for further longitudinal stu-dies on different socioeconomic backgrounds should be tried on a large population.