Dimple is the small sunken part on the face skin, usually occurs during smiling. The presence of dimple makes the facial expression more vivid, looking more outgoing, lovely and beautiful, so it’s regarded as one symbol of beauty. Many young girls crave to have dimples, dimples can be divided into round, oval and hiatus groups. It’s always on the cheek, also common at the corner of the mouth, it’s relatively scarce on the cheekbones, the possibility of the occurrence of dimple is 10%--36%, number of dimples varies from 1 to 5, and they are asymmetrical even if the number is even.
Artificial dimples, i.e. to create dimples on the face through cosmetology method , it’s called dimple formation operation, the position, shape, size and number of the dimples all depend on the preference of the patients, surgeons only provide advice for reference, most people choose to create one dimple on each side of the face, the usual position of the dimple is the intersection point of the parallel line through the mouth corner and the perpendicular line from the eye corner.
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