proxxyy11
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People here are blackpilled on forward growth, but most users don’t seem to fully grasp the esthetic plane (aka Rickett’s plane)
It’s very simple. It explains the ideal position of the lips in relation to the nose and the chin.
If a line is drawn from the tip of the nose from the tip of the chin, the lips should stay behind this line, the lower lip 2mm behind and the upper lip 4mm.
The E-plane is arguably more important than forward growth.
This is what good forward growth looks like without a good E plane:
This is what a good E plane looks like without forward growth:
But of course ideally you’d want to have both:
This is the main reason whites have better side profiles on average
Europeans have less prominent teeth, more prominent noses and more prominent chins.
The perfect recipe for the lips to comfortably sit behind the line.
Africans and Asians on average have more prominent teeth. And how much the lips protrude is determined by the teeth. The more protrusive the teeth, the more protrusive the lips.
It’s very simple. It explains the ideal position of the lips in relation to the nose and the chin.
If a line is drawn from the tip of the nose from the tip of the chin, the lips should stay behind this line, the lower lip 2mm behind and the upper lip 4mm.
The E-plane is arguably more important than forward growth.
This is what good forward growth looks like without a good E plane:
This is what a good E plane looks like without forward growth:
But of course ideally you’d want to have both:
This is the main reason whites have better side profiles on average
Europeans have less prominent teeth, more prominent noses and more prominent chins.
The perfect recipe for the lips to comfortably sit behind the line.
Africans and Asians on average have more prominent teeth. And how much the lips protrude is determined by the teeth. The more protrusive the teeth, the more protrusive the lips.
