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Easy Facial Analysis Using Facial Golden Mask  

Choi, Chan (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Yong Ha (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University)
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Archives of Plastic Surgery / v.33, no.2, 2006 , pp. 168-174 More about this Journal
Abstract
For over two thousand years, many artists and scientists have tried to understand or quantify the form of the perfect, ideal, or the most beautiful face both in art and in vivo(life). However, this mathematical relationship has been consistently and repeatedly reported to be present in beautiful things. This particular relationship is referred to as the golden ratio. It is a mathematical ratio of 1.618 : 1 that seems to appear recurrently in beautiful things in nature as well as in other things that are seen as beautiful. Dr. Marquardt made the facial golden mask that contains and includes all of the 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional geometric golden element formed from the golden ratio. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of the golden facial mask. In our cases(n=40), the authors applied the facial golden mask to the preoperative and postoperative photographs, and scored each photograph. Compared with the average scores of the facial mask applied photographs and none applied photographs using non-parametric test, statistical significance was not checked (p > 0.05). It means that the facial golden mask can be used for facial analysis. The facial golden mask is easy to apply, cheap and relatively objective. So, the authors introduce the one of useful facial analyses.
Keywords
Golden ratio; Facial golden mask; Facial analysis;
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