Patient & Consultation Flashcards
Your systematic approach
- General impression
- Skin
- Face shape
- Facial thirds
- Side + oblique profile
- Static and dynamic poses
Factors which influence concept of beauty
- Gender
- Natural Proportions
- Culture
- Ethnicity
Top third borders
Trichion to glabella
Middle third borders
Glabella to subnasale
Lower third borders
Subnasale to menton (chin)
Bizygomatic & bigonial distance
Bizygomatic - between zygoma arches
Bigoonial - between jaw angle
Bizygomatic & Bigonial distance gender differences
Wider bizygomatic distance preferred in females
Less difference in distance preferred in males for a square look
Ogee Curve
S shaped curve seen in the eye and cheek area from 45 degree angle
Hinderer’s line
Two line intersection of anterior cheek
- Nasal alar to upper tragus
- Oral commissure to lateral canthus of eye
Wilkinson’s line
Two line intersection of anterior cheek
- Verticle line from lateral canthus to mandicular edge
- one-third distance of first line is the apex
Nasolabial distance
between nose and lips
typically 1/3 to 2/3 of the lower face third
Frankfurt Horizontal plane
To asses chin projection
Straight line from nasion (top of nose) to pogonion (end of chin) on side profile
If chin behind line - lack of projection
Ricketts line
To assess chin projection
Line from tip of nose to tip of chin
4mm distance from upper lip
2mm distance from lower lip
Tools to assess chin projection
Ricketts line & Frankfurt Horizontal plane
Lip golden ratio
Caucasian lips
1:1.618
