TRIANGULAR NOSE SERIES

The focal point is a triangle set in the middle third of your face. We divide the nose into three distinct parts the upper third bone structure and the two-thirds upper and lower lateral cartilage. Whether you view your nose from the front, side or bottom, the shape remains a triangle. Browse Getty Images premium collection of high-quality, authentic Triangular Nose stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures.

We divide the external anatomy or shape of your nose into triangles and thirds. Your nose is unique the anatomy may not support the changes you want. The closer your nose conforms to these ideal triangular shapes, the better the likely result.ĭon’t do a ‘nose job’ to please your family or friends do it to please yourself.ĭon’t arrive for a consultation with preconceived ideas, or worse still, demand that the surgeon copy a celebrity nose. A surgeon uses them as a reference when assessing a patient for Rhinoplasty. If you were to enclose the base of your nose, the tip and the nostrils in another triangle, you would notice similar proportions.įor each of us this ideal shape appears unique and different, and it is, yet each nose, tends to conform to the basic aesthetic rules determined by these triangles. We usually focus on this triangle while we’re talking to someone.įrom a side view, a similar triangle would determine the dimensions of your profile. So, if you were to impose a triangle onto an image of your face, you would notice that your nose, in relation to the overall proportions of your face, falls in the center of an inverted triangle formed by the line of your eyes, along the eyebrows at the top, and your mouth and chin at the bottom.

TRIANGULAR NOSE SERIES

Understanding this allows a plastic surgeon to improve your appearance by altering the aesthetic proportions of your nose.Ĭreating proportion and balance out of ‘raw’ nasal tissue, cartilage and bone requires 3-dimensional artistic and surgical skills, advance training, experience and a thorough grounding in nasal anatomy and more than 240 anatomical variables that ultimately determine the shape and function of your nose.Īt the Nose Clinic, we use a series of inter-related triangular shapes to guide us through the complexity. Proportion applies specifically to the shape of the nose in relation to the face. Proportion and harmony define facial attraction. The ideal nose harmonises aesthetically and proportionally with the face.

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