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Multiracial Facial Golden Ratio and Evaluation of Facial Appearance

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  • Mohammad Khursheed Alam
  • Nor Farid Mohd Noor
  • Rehana Basri
  • Tan Fo Yew
  • Tay Hui Wen

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This study aimed to investigate the association of facial proportion and its relation to the golden ratio with the evaluation of facial appearance among Malaysian population. This was a cross-sectional study with 286 randomly selected from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Health Campus students (150 females and 136 males; 100 Malaysian Chinese, 100 Malaysian Malay and 86 Malaysian Indian), with the mean age of 21.54 ± 1.56 (Age range, 18–25). Facial indices obtained from direct facial measurements were used for the classification of facial shape into short, ideal and long. A validated structured questionnaire was used to assess subjects’ evaluation of their own facial appearance. The mean facial indices of Malaysian Indian (MI), Malaysian Chinese (MC) and Malaysian Malay (MM) were 1.59 ± 0.19, 1.57 ± 0.25 and 1.54 ± 0.23 respectively. Only MC showed significant sexual dimorphism in facial index (P = 0.047; P

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  • Mohammad Khursheed Alam & Nor Farid Mohd Noor & Rehana Basri & Tan Fo Yew & Tay Hui Wen, 2015. "Multiracial Facial Golden Ratio and Evaluation of Facial Appearance," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(11), pages 1-22, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0142914
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142914
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