Plastic Surgery Key

Chapter 14The Nose Introduction ‘Cleopatra’s nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed’. Blaise Pascal (1623–62)Pensées (1670)1 The nose occupies the central position of…

Chapter 16The Maxilla and Midface Introduction The terms ‘maxilla’ and ‘midface’ are not synonymous. The midface, or middle region of the face, is the area between a superior plane drawn…

Chapter 20The Chin Introduction ‘Thou whose features clearly beaming make the moon of Beauty bright, Thou whose chin contains a well‐pit which to Loveliness gives light’. Hafez (1325–90) Persian poet‐philosopher1…

Chapter 8Facial Type Introduction ‘It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike’. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–82), English physician…

Chapter 19The Mandible Terminology See ‘terminology’ section in Chapter 16. Anatomy, morphology and size Normal Anatomy and Subunits The mandible, the bone of the lower jaw, is one of the…

Chapter 10Facial Symmetry and Asymmetry Introduction Symmetry may be defined as correspondence in size, shape and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line or median plane….

Chapter 23Smile Aesthetics Introduction The analysis of the smile is an important part of facial aesthetic evaluation. Importance of the smile in facial aesthetics ‘Those cherries fairly do enclose Of…

Chapter 17The Lips Introduction ‘Eternity was in our lips and eyes’. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1606–7)1 The lips form a transition zone between the facial skin and the oral…

Chapter 24Dentogingival Aesthetics Introduction The dentogingival complex may be considered an aesthetic unit of the face, i.e. the dentogingival aesthetic unit, composed of the gingival subunit and the dental subunit….

Chapter 9Facial Proportions Introduction ‘… never depart from the guiding line of proportion. Harmony or disharmony does not lie within angles, distances, lines, surfaces or volumes. They arise from proportion’….