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Maxillofacial Surgery
Facial Aesthetic Analysis Regional Analysis
Built from Facial Aesthetics — Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis
What’s inside
5 sections · 37 slides
Overview
- Where this stage of the examination begins
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- Head in profile inside a proportion frame
Dividing the face into units
Units, subunits and the lines between them
- Why the face is split into regions
- Heads drawn as blocks of facets
- Profile heads built from proportion lines
- Aesthetic units
- The nine facial soft tissue units
- Units of the upper and middle face
- Units of the lower face and neck
- Nasal unit and its neighbours in close-up
- Lip, chin and neck units in close-up
- From unit down to subunit
- What counts as a subunit
- Why surgeons work in subunits
The modified subunit principle
What to check in every region that is at fault
- Narrowing the examination down
- What to evaluate in every unit
- Two ways to talk about size
- Shape, and where the region sits
- A region can also be tilted
- Faces are moving targets
Everything is relative
Why no facial measurement means much on its own
- The physicist who made relativity famous
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- From fixed values to relative ones
- An idea that spread well past physics
- Relativity, applied to the face
The five facial profile prominences
Forehead, nose, lips, chin and the submental-cervical region
- Judge the part, then judge the whole
- The five prominences, from top to bottom
- The five prominences seen on a real profile
- How one prominence changes another
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- The outline of the facial profile
- Nearest neighbours matter most
- Facial harmony
- What to carry away
- References
- Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis, 2nd Edition