Why is jawline definition so important?

The jawline has always been portrayed by illustrators as an important feature of beauty. Historically, the faces of cartoon characters from our childhood like Superman and Batman are examples of characters with the strong masculine image of jawline definition.

However, the female 'slim' profile, with complete definition between the face and neck, brought grace to female muses and is an example of current beauty in the lower facial third, such as Scarlett Johansson.

Why is jawline definition so important?

This is because the jawline serves a very important aesthetic function: breaking the continuity between the neck and the face and giving strength and definition to the features.

On the contrary, the lack of definition in the gonial angles gives an aged appearance and detracts from the character of the face.

Causes:

Normally, the most common causes of lack of jawline definition are poor positioning or insufficient size. When there is a retracted position of the jaw within the face, or it is very small, the jaw structure is hidden in the neck tissues, and its definition disappears.

There are other less frequent cases where the position and size of the jaw are correct, but there is still little definition due to an alteration in the shape of the angles due to genetic causes or some facial trauma.

Ideal age:

As mentioned earlier, we can treat young patients who genetically have retrognathia ('short or small jaw', which derives from the position of the chin or underdeveloped jaw) or more mature individuals who have lost support in the lower facial third due to bone resorption.