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Soft-tissue facial angles, distances, areas, and volumes were computed. Comparisons were made with analysis of variance.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Attractive adolescents had wider, shorter, and less deep faces than reference adolescents, with a relatively larger forehead and maxilla, and a reduced mandible relative to the maxilla. Lips were larger and more prominent, and the nasolabial angle was reduced, but in older boys the effect was reversed. The prominence of the soft-tissue profile, and of the maxilla relative to the mandible, were larger in attractive boys, but smaller in attractive girls than in their reference peers. In the horizontal plane, attractive \u201cyoung\u201d adolescents had a flatter face, while the opposite pattern was observed in the \u201cold\u201d adolescents, with a relatively more prominent chin. Attractive adolescents had smaller noses than reference subjects of the same age and sex.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Conclusions: Overall, all the measurements appeared sufficiently homogenous, and the quantitative characteristics of an \u201cattractive\u201d face well defined. 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