High-Set or Low-Set of Korean Face.
10.11637/kjpa.2017.30.1.1
- Author:
Wu Chul SONG
1
;
Sung Ho KIM
;
Ki Seok KOH
Author Information
1. Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Konkuk University, Korea. kskoh@kku.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Face;
Face height;
High-set face;
Mid-set face;
Low-set face
- MeSH:
Asian Continental Ancestry Group;
Congenital Abnormalities;
Female;
Head;
Humans;
Male;
Orbit;
Volunteers;
Young Adult
- From:Korean Journal of Physical Anthropology
2017;30(1):1-6
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The face is the most important for individual identification, which showed racial and regional differences. The aim of the present study was to investigate that how much highly locate the facial structures in the face. In total, 551 Korean young adult volunteers with no deformity or surgical history of the face (218 males and 333 females) were selected. Subjects were photographed while sitting and assuming a standard head position, such that the porion and inferior orbital margin were in the same horizontal plane (Frankfurt plane), and they were gazing forward. The total face height was measured vertically from trichion to gnathion. And total face height was divided three heights such as upper, mid, and lower face height. Total face height of male was larger about 6% than female. The ratio of lower face height about upper face height was calculated, it showed 55.7% in male and 50.3 in female. The face was classified into three sets including high-set, mid-set, and low-set according the ratio. The male face showed relatively high-set face, while female face showed relatively low-set face. The present study is the first study to investigate about high- or low-set face, and the result is useful data to identify characteristics of the east Asian population including Korean.
