Out of all the available treatments for these patients, the first option is usually skeletal structure intervention in conjunction with orthodontics and surgery, which is referred to as orthognathic surgery.

The lack of growth potential in adult skeletal class II patients makes it impossible to perform growth modification treatments like functional jaw orthopaedics. Overall, in terms of skeletal and dental orthodontic treatments, nose shape should be considered during the treatment planning process. The lay people perceived that having a convex-bridged nose was a bigger problem than having a retrognathic profile. Furthermore, for all the profiles, extraction treatment did not affect the aesthetic scores given by any of the groups ( P > 0.05). For the straight nose profiles, orthognathic surgery increased the attractiveness scores given by all groups. When surgical or camouflage treatment was not implemented and, instead, just rhinoplasty was performed for these profiles, there was a significant increase in the aesthetic scores given by all groups. Resultsįor the convex nose profiles, anterior movement of the mandible obtained by orthognathic surgery did not result in a significant change in the scores given by the lay people.

These photographs were shown to the three groups (orthodontists, plastic surgeons, and lay people), and they were asked to assign an attractiveness score to each photo ranging from 0 to 100, with 0 indicating the least attractive and 100 indicating the most attractive. A total of 18 constructed images was composed using three profiles (pre-treatment, post-camouflage, and post-orthognathic surgery) and six nose types. Two constructed photographs were created to represent orthognathic surgery and camouflage treatments with the aid of computer software. MethodsĪ pre-treatment profile photograph of a skeletal class II adult patient was selected from the department archive. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different nose types on the perception of facial aesthetics following camouflage treatment and orthognathic surgery for skeletal class II female patients.

Nose shapes