Background: Health promotion and prevention are becoming increasingly important in the context of the growing prevalence of chronic diseases, population aging, and the shift towards patient-centered care. Objective: This review examines the relationship between health promotion, lifestyle medicine, and medical prevention, with particular emphasis on the convergence between general medicine and dentistry and on the positioning of the conceptual framework of Individual Health–General Health– Primordial Health–Total Health. Methods: A narrative review with a conceptual component was conducted. Relevant literature was identified through thematic searches in PubMed and Google Scholar. Sources were selected according to their relevance to the objectives of the review. The quality and applicability of the evidence were considered in relation to the type and authority of the source, its relevance, and its consistency with the literature and reference frameworks used. Results: The literature identifies several risk factors shared by oral and systemic health, including diet, smoking, obesity, chronic inflammation, and stress. These interrelationships support the integration of prevention, health education, and interventions targeting modifiable behaviors into both medical and dental practice. Conclusions: Closer collaboration between general medicine, dentistry, and public health may facilitate a more coherent framework for preventive care. The proposed conceptual model may provide a starting point for future research.
Aim. To identify the main facial features associated to facial attractiveness in women nowadays. Method. A descriptive study was conducted on a sample of 20 female public figures, very famous and successful women, most frequently actresses, singers or models, considered very beautiful nowadays. Their selection followed the analysis of several recent tops that aimed identifying most beautiful women, in which raters were lay persons. Data was collected by analyzing photos from frontal and lateral view, during rest position and smiling. Results. The persons analyzed registered diverse facial traits. Most obvious trends, encountered in more than 75% of them, included: Caucasian race; straight and long hair; average nasal tip protrusion; maxillary dental midline concordant to facial midline; a thicker lower lip compared to the upper lip; exposure of only maxillary incisors during smile; decreased or absent buccal corridor; maxillary central incisors of oval/rectangular shape; absence of maxillary teeth crowding. Other frequently encountered features were: American nationality; brown hair; eyes with medium size, almond shape, wide set, of green color; nose with an average width; face with a decreased lower third and a slightly convex profile; a thick lower lip and an average upper lip; exposure during smiling till the first molar, with a normal smile line. Conclusions. The public beautiful women nowadays register features that are generally associated to an increased facial attractiveness. Knowledge of trends in facial beauty is useful in dental practice, in order to understand better patient’s need in terms of esthetic expectations.
