Michael Eggerstedt1, Jessica Rhee2, Matthew J Urban3, Angelica Mangahas3, Ryan M Smith3, Peter C Revenaugh3. 1. Section of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America. Electronic address: Michael_eggerstedt@rush.edu. 2. Rush Medical College, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America. 3. Section of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The advent of social media has influenced the relationship between aesthetic surgeons and their patients, as well as the motivations of such patients to seek cosmetic surgery. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: To determine how the cephalometric proportions of modern social media models fit with historical canons of beauty. MATERIALS & METHODS: Frontal and lateral photographs of 20 high-influence female Instagram models were obtained and evaluated for cephalometric measures. The means of these measures were compared with previous reports in the literature. RESULTS: Cephalometric measurements of social media models were in agreement with historical ideals of beauty for Nostril axis (120.7°), Goode's ratio (0.6), Nasofacial angle (35.7°), Nasofrontal angle (130.9°), and the horizontal thirds. Results were discrepant from historical ideals for the Nasolabial angle (82.6°) and the vertical facial fifths. CONCLUSION: Cephalometric measurements of social media models in the digital age closely resemble the ideal values proposed by previous authors. Due to a preference for larger or altered lip profiles, nostril axis is a more reliable measure of nasal tip rotation than nasolabial angle.
BACKGROUND: The advent of social media has influenced the relationship between aesthetic surgeons and their patients, as well as the motivations of such patients to seek cosmetic surgery. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: To determine how the cephalometric proportions of modern social media models fit with historical canons of beauty. MATERIALS & METHODS: Frontal and lateral photographs of 20 high-influence female Instagram models were obtained and evaluated for cephalometric measures. The means of these measures were compared with previous reports in the literature. RESULTS: Cephalometric measurements of social media models were in agreement with historical ideals of beauty for Nostril axis (120.7°), Goode's ratio (0.6), Nasofacial angle (35.7°), Nasofrontal angle (130.9°), and the horizontal thirds. Results were discrepant from historical ideals for the Nasolabial angle (82.6°) and the vertical facial fifths. CONCLUSION: Cephalometric measurements of social media models in the digital age closely resemble the ideal values proposed by previous authors. Due to a preference for larger or altered lip profiles, nostril axis is a more reliable measure of nasal tip rotation than nasolabial angle.