PURPOSE:
to verify the compatibility between findings of facial measurements by caliper and perception of facial features made subjectively by an experienced evaluator.
METHODS:
24 female and 24 male subjects, paired for sex and age, without morphological and functional complaints of the stomatognathic system were evaluated. Aspects of symmetry between the middle and lower thirds, height and width of the face, and outer corner of the right and left eyes to the corners of the right and left respectively lip were evaluated. Each measurement was performed three times by a digital caliper to consider the average of these values, considering asymmetric comparisons with differences more than 4 millimeters. The width of the face was obtained through digital caliper fitted with extension 10 centimeters. The evaluation of the perception of facial features was performed by a blinded evaluator as to the digital caliper measurements that should point symmetries and asymmetries in these same evaluative aspects.
RESULTS:
through the agreement Kappa and Chi- square test, it was possible to verify proper compatibility between the assessments, demonstrating the reliability of the methods used. Furthermore, it was found that there is a relationship between symmetry thirds of the face and assignment of facial typology on the perceptual evaluation, observing symmetry in medium and short faces and absence of a decisive standard for long faces.
CONCLUSION:
the characterization of facial symmetry by a digital caliper has a good compatibility with the subjective perception of an experienced evaluator.
Anthropometry; Face; Stomatognathic System; Perception
