Insights · How it is measured here · invented
Ogee curve scorewhat a photo can give, and how we take it.
Cheek shading in the ¾ view (light on the cheekbone vs a flat mid-cheek) and midface width — the visible part of the curve.
Why the textbook version needs more than a photo
invented
Canthion reports
Photographic equivalent
What we report
Cheek shading in the ¾ view (light on the cheekbone vs a flat mid-cheek) and midface width — the visible part of the curve.
Why not the clinical number itself
The ogee is a qualitative description of the S-shaped malar–submalar contour seen on a three-quarter view, used in custom-implant planning. There are NO published quantitative norms for it. Any numeric "ogee score" is fabricated.
What we measure instead
Ratios of near-coplanar frontal distances, angles relative to the interpupillary line, and skin appearance — each with an error bar, each against a population you choose. Start an analysis or read the methodology.
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