Aymes GL, Fandiño IJ

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ABSTRACT

Background: The concept of beauty has constantly evolved along history. In Greece, Classics defined it as a collection of lines and angles; Renaissance said it was a complex group of anatomic and geometric proportions. Considering the actual concept of beauty as aesthetics and facial harmony which includes age, race, gender, habits and personality of each individual, intrinsic and extrinsic factors, it is the skin the one that evidences more precisely these effects. A useful method to assess this is with photometric studies of the nasal-facial angles, based in the relationship between nose and face (Powell angles).
Objective: To describe, based in the Powell method, the nasal-facial changes in adults between 60 to 80 years old and patients within a range of 20 to 40 years old.
Hypothesis: People older than 60 have nasal tip ptosis.
Material and Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study in 56 patients with any pathology during March-October 2007. Inclusion criteria: both genres older than 60 and between 20 and 40 years old.Exclusion criteria: patients younger than 20 and between 40-60 years old, having a previous rhinoplasty, chronic degenerative diseases with nasal affection, prior nasal trauma, craniofacial malformations, acute or chronic dermatitis in the nasal region, nasal pathology with direct impact on the regional nasal anatomy.
Results: Quantitative results confirm that all women gained more acute angles than men. A comparison between youngsters and older adults showed a significant difference in elder people regarding front nasal angles, and nasolabial angles in younger people. There were no statistically significant differences in nasal angles for any of the study groups, except the one corresponding to sex.
Conclusion: With this information, we can conclude that the nasal projection regarding the facial plane changes through the years. The front nasal and nasolabial angles, increased and decreased respectively by the age, cause nasal ptosis.

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