Evaluation of Soft Tissue Landmarks Using Holdaway Analysis among Southern Rajasthan Population in Various Skeletal Malocculsions

A person’s ability to recognize a beautiful face is innate, but translating this into defined treatment goals is problematic. Recognizing beauty is not practiced nor is it difficult. The perception of beauty is an individual preference with cultural bias. Rules governing why a face is beautiful are not understood nor are required for anyone to say that a face is beautiful. Artists and health professionals have attempted to define and recreate an ideal. They recognize beauty, yet objective standards are difficult, despite unending attempts to clarify this concept. As health professionals have increased their ability to change faces, the necessity to understand what is and is not beautiful has intensified. With the advent of cephalometric head films, various analyses were developed in an attempt to qualitate and quantitate esthetic facial profiles. Downs attempted to use hard tissue measurements to analyze profile imbalance to differentiate between good and poor dentofacial profiles [1].