FPRS Facial analysis

Question 1

Describe the Fitzpatrick scale of skin typing.

Answer 1

I always burns, never tans (pale white skin)
II always burns easily, tans minimally (white skin)
III burns modestly, tans uniformly (light olive skin)
IV burns minimally, always tans well (moderate brown skin)
V rarely burns, tans profusely (dark brown skin)
VI never burns (deeply pigmented brown to black skin)

Question 2

Describe the Glogau classification of photoaging

skin.

Answer 2

● Class I: Little wrinkling, ages 28 to 35 years, mild pigment
changes without keratosis
● Class II: Wrinkles with motion, ages 35 to 50 years, early
pigment changes and early actinic keratosis
● Class III: Wrinkles at rest, ages 50 to 65 years, gross
discoloration, visible keratosis, and telangiectasia
● Class IV: Severe wrinkling, 60 years and older, prior skin
cancers, diffuse wrinkling with color changes

Question 3

Describe the Frankfort horizontal line.

Answer 3

An imaginary line that extends from the superior aspect of the external auditory meatus to the inferior orbital rim

Question 4

How is the ideal facial height described?

Answer 4

The facial height can be divided into three equal parts. The
superior third is measured from trichion to glabella, middle
third from glabella to subnasale, inferior third from
subnasale to menton.

Question 5

How is the lower third of the face subdivided?

Answer 5

The upper third is determined by the subnasale to stomion and lower two-thirds by the stomion to mentum.

Question 6

Describe how the face is divided into vertical fifths.

Answer 6

On frontal view, the face is divided into five equal proportions using the lateral-most projection, the lateral
canthi, and the medial canthi.