Marquardt's phi mask: Pitfalls of relying on fashion models and the golden ratio to describe a beautiful face

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-208

  Holland, E ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Golden ratio; Phi mask; Procrustes analysis; Stephen Marquardt; Thin plate splines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; EUROPE; FACE MASK; FACE PROFILE; FACE SURGERY; FEMININITY; MASCULINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BEAUTY; ESTHETICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 40149098976     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-007-9080-z     Document Type: Article

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