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Facial Aesthetics

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The primary aim of facial aesthetic surgery is to enhance the natural attractiveness of the face by restoring or maintaining youthful features while preserving functionality and dynamics. Beauty can be defined as a combination of qualities that are pleasing to the senses or the mind. As a philosophical concept, Alexander Baumgarten, the eighteenth-century philosopher who established aesthetics as a separate field of philosophy, created the term derived from the Greek word for perception (aesthesis). Therefore, the study of aesthetics will comprise the evaluation and comprehension of the beautiful and, its counterpart, the unpleasant or ugly.

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    Sean G. Boutros MD, FACS & Carlos A. Martinez MD

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  1. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Peter J. Taub

  2. Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery; Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Pravin K. Patel

  3. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Craniofacial Anomalies Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Steven R. Buchman

  4. Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Mimis N. Cohen

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Boutros, S.G., Martinez, C.A. (2015). Facial Aesthetics. In: Taub, P., Patel, P., Buchman, S., Cohen, M. (eds) Ferraro's Fundamentals of Maxillofacial Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8341-0_4

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