The general objective of this study is to highlight the anthropometric characteristics of beautiful lips in a population of young Negroid students, based on a subjective evaluation of their student peers. Fifty-two female students declared to have “beautiful lips” by students agreed to voluntarily participate in the study after free consent and agreement to have a photograph of the lip taken. To be included in the study, the student had to be judged “to have beautiful lips”, twice with an interval of 24 hours, by three male students, of the same age and presenting no conflict of interest. The average age of the students surveyed was 23 ± 2.16 years. Mean upper lip height, lower lip height, and buccal width were 11.7 ± 1.1 mm, 17.7 ± 1.6 mm, and 66.6 ± 3.3 mm, respectively. The overjet of 1.9 mm was found in 14 students (26.9%), a V cupid’s bow in 36 students (69.2%) and the association was found in 12 students (23.1%). Anthropometric measurements of beautiful lips in a population of young Negroid female students show a height and an average labial width (upper and lower) which are lower than those found in the literature and that the Cupid’s bow in V is the reflection of an appreciation of “beautiful lip”. In-depth studies on the anthropometric referential of beautiful lips in young Negroids are therefore necessary.
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Kibadi, A. K. and Madiya, B. (2023). Anthropometric Characteristics of Beautiful Lips in a Population of Young Negroid Students: Pilot Survey. Open Access Library Journal, 10, e177. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1110177.
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