Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Background: in the contemporary era of dental practice, facial along with dental aesthetics has become the key element playing a predominant role in diagnosis and treatment planning over the last few decagons. Smile examination, smile plans, dynamic lip-tooth relationshipallows the clinician to meet the increasing aesthetic and gratuitous demand of the patients. Thus, the main aim of the study was to investigate possible gender dissimilarities in definite aesthetic parameters including curve of upper lip, maxillary midline, tooth shape, smile line, smile arc, labio-dental relationship and number of teeth displayed. Material and methodology: randomized 100, both under and postgraduate dental students of the college and attendant of the patients who were willing to participate in the study were selected from the department of Prosthodontic, GDC Srinagar. Frontal view photographs using digital camera with posed smile both under rest and forced smiling condition were obtained and assessed using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Results: highly statistically significant results were obtained when a comparison of parameters like smile arc and curve of upper lip was done with that of gender with a p value of 0.000, while significant results were obtained in parameters with smile line, tooth shape and tooth displayed while smiling. Non significant results were obtained with labio-dental and maxillary midline relationship when compared with gender. Conclusion: within the limitations of the study, it can be concluded that smile characteristics integrated with dental and aesthetic standards should be considered in order to assure a satisfactory and predictable dental treatment outcomes before the beginning of any prosthetic treatment.