ANTHROPOMETRIC PROFILE OF THE CAUCASIAN NOSE IN THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO: IMPORTANCE IN AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Patterns that relate to nasal esthetics are essential for proper preoperative assessment and surgical programming. The standardized nasal aesthetic measures used today, in general, are a mixture of the artistic ideals of beauty obtained by models and celebrities. Because they do not consider population measures in these standard measurements, such measures vary according to those different populations and allow a discrepancy between the desire of the plastic surgeon and the patient's real desire for rhinoplasty. Not all patients wish to obtain an aesthetic result according to these values ​​currently offered, but rather a natural result, with some characteristics that resemble their ethnicity and population of origin. The Brazilian population lacks population studies about their nasal measurements. To evaluate the anthropometric measurements of the nose in Caucasian patients in the city of Rio de Janeiro and compare it with the aesthetic ideas of Powell & Humphreys. Cross - sectional, observational, descriptive, quantitative and qualitative study about the anthropometric pattern of Caucasian volunteers aged 18 to 50 years from an plastic surgery ambulatory. Patients with a history of face and nose trauma, previous facial surgery and non-Caucasian patients will be excluded. The following variables will be obtained through frontal and lateral views: intercantal distance, alar distance, nasal dorsum length, nasofrontal angle, nasolabial angle and nasal tip projection (Goode's method). Statistical analysis will be performed to compare the measurements obtained between the genders and with the ideal esthetic standards. The population sample of the city of Rio de Janeiro differs statistically from the current aesthetic standards of nasal anatomy, except for the nasolabial angle. In the comparison between the genders, men presented a sharper nasolabial angle and a more projected nasal tip. Given the importance, it is necessary to promote facial anthropometry so that future studies may contribute to surgeons' knowledge of specific nasal measurements in different populations. Thus, the aesthetic result of future rhinoplasty can be increasingly natural and appropriate to the demographic aspects of the patient.