Reliability of esthetic ratings of XXXX .

@entity1 @entity73 @entity2419
The decision to seek secondary treatment for @entity2419 is often the result of concerns about the esthetic acceptability of appearance. There are no standard techniques to assess @entity2419 for esthetic acceptability. Therefore, it is not possible to evaluate objectively either the need for or the benefits of treatment. If it could be shown that @entity1 agree closely on how they rate the esthetic appearance of @entity2419 that vary in severity, then esthetic measures of @entity2419 could be developed with @entity1 judgment as the yardstick. The goals of this study were: (1) to examine the reliability with which @entity1 express their preferences for @entity2419 that vary in severity, (2) to determine if other facial characteristics influence the reliability of @entity1 's preferences for @entity2419 , and (3) to evaluate if age and gender of @entity1 influence preferences for @entity2419 . Based on preratings, eight types of photographic slides were created that varied in severity of @entity2419 and global facial attractiveness. A second sample of subjects then rated the slides on the esthetic acceptability of appearance. @entity1 ranked the photographic types consistently. They least preferred the photographic types depicting severe @entity73 , or both, and most preferred faces with no impairment or moderate attractiveness, or both. There were also developmental effects in that younger @entity1 tended to have less consensus in their ratings of appearance than older @entity1 . Finally, @entity1 displayed greater consensus than @entity1 .
