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A Guide to self-diagnosis for facial recession.
By Orka.
Not as high effort as the rest of my threads. But can be really useful for people having difficulty identifying where they're recessed.
Have you ever felt confident? Do you want to find out how you can feel like shit about your looks again? You're in the right place.
(Keep in mind, this guide was made for new users, to avoid them having to create posts asking about recession. A lot of the information in this thread is water)
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Table of Contents
1. Understanding Recession
2. Prep Work, How to Photograph Yourself Properly
3. Frontal Analysis
4. Side Analysis
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1. Understanding Recession
Recession is pretty simple to identify if you've got a severe recession somewhere, but even a collection of minor recessions on your face can be the reason you see yourself as ugly. This guide is for you to identify the areas in which you're lacking, to help you plan or figure out what areas to target, and with what procedures.
You won't find solutions to your recession in this guide, this is to give you an idea of where you're recessed,
then with that information you can do individual research on how to fix it.
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2. How to Photograph Yourself Properly
Camera angles can distort the reality of some of your features, to avoid misdiagnosing yourself, try taking photos of yourself in the way demonstrated below.
To achieve this, I suggest putting your phone on a platform that's just below eye level, and recording a video, then going through the video and taking screenshots of the parts which look the most similar to the photos above. Try being at least 3 meters away from your camera & zooming in.
Try to get some frontal lighting to show your facial depth, this will be important for later.
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3. Frontal Analysis
Upper Eyelid Exposure
Caused by a recessed frontal bone or superior orbital rim, or by low orbital fat volume and thin upper eyelid skin.
Wide set eyes
Usually due to a narrow or recessed maxilla and zygomatic bones, or natural orbital spacing combined with weak soft-tissue fullness at the inner cheeks.
Thin Upper Lip
Can come from a recessed maxilla or alveolar ridge, or simply low fat and muscle volume in the upper lip region. (Usually a maxillary issue though)
Prominent Eyebags
Linked to a recessed infraorbital rim, maxilla, or weak zygomatic projection, but can also be caused by low midface fat, and poor skin elasticity.
Narrow Jaw / Narrow Face / "Horseface"/Long Midface
Often due to recessed zygomatic bones, flat maxilla, or mandible with downward growth.
Outwards facing ears
Sometimes from narrow zygomatic arches or temporal bone width, but more often just due to natural cartilage shape or minimal cheek soft-tissue projection.
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4. Side Analysis
Chin sits behind lips
Due to a recessed mandible or mental region, but can also appear that way from full lips or short pogonion soft tissue.
Jaw goes 'too far downwards'
Caused by downward-grown or recessed mandible, usually with a recessed maxilla, also worsened by low soft-tissue tension and weak gonial mass.
Flat Face
Recessed maxilla, always.
Nose Bump
Appears when the maxilla and nasal bones are recessed, maxillary recession is almost always paired with a nose bump (left).
Example on the right is purely genetic though, left isn't.
Example on the right is purely genetic though, left isn't.
No TLDR for this, it's straight forward & not that long tbh
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