Duggal Shveta, Kapoor D N, Verma Santosh, Sagar Mahesh, Lee Yung-Seop, Moon Hyoungjin, Rhee Seung Chul
Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Kothiwal Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad, India.
Department of Orthodontics, Kothiwal Dental College and Former Dean of Dental Faculty, KGMU, Lucknow, India.
Arch Plast Surg. 2016 Mar;43(2):160-71. doi: 10.5999/aps.2016.43.2.160. Epub 2016 Mar 18.
The objective of this study was to assess the attractive facial features of the Indian population. We tried to evaluate subjective ratings of facial attractiveness and identify which facial aesthetic subunits were important for facial attractiveness.
A cross-sectional study was conducted of 150 samples (referred to as candidates). Frontal photographs were analyzed. An orthodontist, a prosthodontist, an oral surgeon, a dentist, an artist, a photographer and two laymen (estimators) subjectively evaluated candidates' faces using visual analog scale (VAS) scores. As an objective method for facial analysis, we used balanced angular proportional analysis (BAPA). Using SAS 10.1 (SAS Institute Inc.), the Turkey's studentized range test and Pearson correlation analysis were performed to detect between-group differences in VAS scores (Experiment 1), to identify correlations between VAS scores and BAPA scores (Experiment 2), and to analyze the characteristic features of facial attractiveness and gender differences (Experiment 3); the significance level was set at P=0.05.
Experiment 1 revealed some differences in VAS scores according to professional characteristics. In Experiment 2, BAPA scores were found to behave similarly to subjective ratings of facial beauty, but showed a relatively weak correlation coefficient with the VAS scores. Experiment 3 found that the decisive factors for facial attractiveness were different for men and women. Composite images of attractive Indian male and female faces were constructed.
Our photogrammetric study, statistical analysis, and average composite faces of an Indian population provide valuable information about subjective perceptions of facial beauty and attractive facial structures in the Indian population.
本研究的目的是评估印度人群具有吸引力的面部特征。我们试图评估面部吸引力的主观评分，并确定哪些面部美学亚单位对面部吸引力很重要。
对150个样本（称为候选人）进行了横断面研究。对正面照片进行分析。一名正畸医生、一名修复医生、一名口腔外科医生、一名牙医、一名艺术家、一名摄影师和两名外行人（评估者）使用视觉模拟量表（VAS）评分对面部进行主观评估。作为面部分析的客观方法，我们使用了平衡角比例分析（BAPA）。使用SAS 10.1（SAS Institute Inc.），进行土耳其学生化极差检验和Pearson相关分析，以检测VAS评分的组间差异（实验1），确定VAS评分与BAPA评分之间的相关性（实验2），并分析面部吸引力的特征和性别差异（实验3）；显著性水平设定为P = 0.05。
实验1显示，根据专业特征，VAS评分存在一些差异。在实验2中，发现BAPA评分与面部美的主观评分表现相似，但与VAS评分的相关系数相对较弱。实验3发现，面部吸引力的决定性因素因男性和女性而异。构建了有吸引力的印度男性和女性面部的合成图像。
我们对印度人群的摄影测量研究、统计分析和平均合成面部提供了有关印度人群对面部美的主观认知和有吸引力的面部结构的宝贵信息。
