Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 19, 2026

Quantitative Assessment Protocol for Facial Soft Tissue Volumetric Changes with Stereophotogrammetry
Published on: December 9, 2025
Factors influencing attractiveness of soft tissue profile
Behnam Khosravanifard1, Vahid Rakhshan, Elham Raeesi
1Department of Orthodontics, Dental Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Background And Aim:
The factors affecting the attractiveness of the soft tissue profile are assessed in only very few nonmatched and controversial studies. We aimed to evaluate these factors in a matched comprehensive study.
Methods:
Profile photographs of 100 students with good occlusion were sorted according to facial beauty by 20 judges. After excluding 40 unmatched subjects or those with marginal scores, 12 soft tissue variables were compared among profiles of 30 attractive and 30 unattractive matched participants (t test, α = 0.05).
Results And Conclusion:
As the most important factor, excessive mandibular retrusion made both men and women unattractive. Both attractive men and women tended to have less prominent noses with higher nose tips, protruded upper lips compared with the position of lower lips, and deeper lower faces. Closeness of lips to the middle of vertical chin-nose distance enhanced female beauty only. Straight profiles and more protruded maxillae merely made men more attractive.
Related Concept Videos
Factors Influencing Attraction II: Physical Attraction
Relationship Formation
Factors Influencing Drug Absorption: Anatomical Parameters
Assessment of Airway, Skin Color, and Use of Accessory Muscles
Introduction
The initial evaluation of a patient's respiratory system...
Factors Influencing Attraction VI: Personality Traits
Factors Influencing Attraction III: Similarity

