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A preliminary study on the key factors contributing to the attractive lips of Chinese children
Jia-Yu Shi1, Han Zhou, Run-Yi Mao
1State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Objective:
To explore the aesthetic characteristics of the Chinese children lips.
Methods:
Frontal and profile photographs of 653 healthy children were categorized as the attractive and the unattractive by three laypersons and objectively measured for comparison.
Results:
The attractive group tended to be smaller in the upper paramedian red lip height, the lower paramedian red lip height, the midline upper red lip height, the central bow angle, and the lip angle, while greater in the Cupid's bow width.
Conclusions:
Thinner lips seemed to be more attractive than full ones among Chinese children.
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