The Persian Woman’s Face: A Photogrammetric Analysis

Background The aim of this study was to establish normative quantitative anthropometric measurements of the Persian woman’s face and assess differences from established North American White women’s measurements. Methods Standard photographs (frontal, left lateral, and base views) of 107 Persian women volunteers (both parents of Persian ancestry) between the ages of 18 and 40 were digitally acquired. Twenty-six standard anthropometric measurements were obtained using Adobe Photoshop. The results were compared with those previously published for North American White women using an unpaired t test with differences being considered significant if p