| Title | Vertical and horizontal neoclassical facial canons in Turkish young adults. |
| Author(s) | Bozkir MG, Karakas P, Oguz O |
| Institution | Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey. gbozkir@mail.cu.edu.tr |
| Source | Surg Radiol Anat 2004 Jun; 26(3):212-9. |
| MeSH | Adolescent
Adult
Cephalometry
Chin
Comparative Study
Ear, External
Face
Facial Bones
Female
Forehead
Humans
Male
Mouth
Nose
Orbit
Reproducibility of Results
Sex Factors
Skull
Turkey
Vertical Dimension
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| Abstract | Four vertical and three horizontal measurements were taken to assess the validity of neoclassical facial canons in 500 (272 female, 228 male) healthy, young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years from Turkey and to compare them with a different population. The measurements were made by a millimetric compass. The special head height was longer than the special face height in the majority of our group (women/men: 97.8%/91.7%). The three-section facial profile canon was equal in only one male subject (women/men: 0/0.4%). Faces with four equal profile sections were not seen in either of the sexes. The nose length was longer than the ear length in the minority of our population (women/men: 1.5%/1.3%). The intercanthal distance was shorter than the nose width and left eye fissure length in the majority of our subjects (women/men: 50.4%/78.9% and 50.0%/52.2% respectively). The mouth width was greater than 1.5 times the nose width in the majority of this study (women/men: 66.9% vs 49.1%). |
| Language | eng |
| Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
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| PubMed ID | 14625792 |
