Clinically Oriented Software for Facial Symmetry, Morphology, and Aesthetic Analysis

Lord Kelvin once said: "If you cannot measure it, you can't improve it." This excerpt reflects one of the fundamental rules of plastic surgery. Only based on a meticulous analysis of the region of interest can one develop an optimal treatment plan and assess its outcome, which will eventually result in improvement of his/her skills. This is particularly true in the case of surgical procedures involving structurally complex regions, such as the face. The most common methods for facial analysis include clinical examination, direct anthropometry, cephalometry, subjective and objective evaluation of two-dimensional photographs, and 3-dimensional (3D) models.^1-5