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Golden proportion assessment between maxillary and mandibular teeth on Indian population
Naveen Gopi Chander1, Vaikunth Vijay Kumar, Vedantham Rangarajan
1Department of Prosthodontics, SRM Dental College, Ramapuram, Chennai, India.
Purpose:
This study evaluated the existence of golden proportion between the widths of the maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth in Indian population.
Materials And Methods:
The clinical tooth width measurements were recorded with the digital vernier calipers on 576 patients of both sexes in the age group of 21 - 30 years. Flexible ruler was used to determine the width of maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth on the patients by the same operator. The data obtained was statistically analyzed using paired student t-test (α=.05).
Results:
The golden proportion was not found between the width of the right central and lateral incisors in 53% of women and 47% of men. The results revealed the golden percentage was rather inconstant in terms of relative tooth width.
Conclusion:
The golden proportion is an inappropriate method to relate the successive widths of the maxillary anterior teeth in Indian population.
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