Facial aesthetic preferences among Asian women: Are all oriental Asians the same?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 342-347

  Dobke, Marek ^a,b   Chung, Christopher ^a   Takabe, Kazuaki ^a  

^a Division of Plastic Surgery UCSD ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic priorities; Beauty criteria; Facial aesthetics; Oriental Asians

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; ETHNOLOGY; FACE; FACIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; KOREA; LIP; NOSE; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ROLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ATTITUDE; BEAUTY; ESTHETICS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; LIP; NOSE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33744763625     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-005-0091-3     Document Type: Article

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