The impact of the rater’s age and gender on the facial aesthetic evaluation in the sagittal skeletal patterns in adults (A Cross-sectional study)

Abstract

Background & Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of age and gender of the rater on the assessment of adult facial attractiveness in the different types of sagittal skeletal patterns.

Materials and Methods: The sample included 240 raters from the general public whose ages ranged between (20-25) and (35-40) years, including raters from both genders equally. The raters evaluated the facial aesthetics of pre-treatment extra-oral photographs of 120 patients, whose ages ranged between (18-21) years, and the Scoring was performed using the VAS scale. The mean values and standard deviations of the raters' scores for each photograph were calculated.

 Results: The results showed no significant differences (P˃0.05) between the aesthetic evaluation scores of the two raters age groups, whilst significant differences were found between the gender of the raters where the evaluation of the female raters in class two division (Ι) (P=0.016) and class two division (П) (P=0.031) was greater than that of the male raters.

Conclusion: The age of the rater has no effect on facial aesthetics of adults in different types of sagittal skeletal patterns, and generally, there is limited effect of the rater’s gender according to the gender of the assessed patient, such as cases of female patients in class two division (Ι) and (П), where the evaluation of the female raters where higher than the evaluation of the male raters for them.