Facial skeleton

Bony mask of the face as looksmaxxing rates it

Facial skeleton

Labeled skull (Wikimedia Commons)
Field	Anatomy
Also known as	viscerocranium, facial bones

The facial skeleton (viscerocranium) is the set of bones that make the face: not the braincase. Looksmaxxing’s “it’s over / bone” talk is almost entirely this mask plus how fat and lids sit on it.

This page is a map. Individual bones have their own articles.

The bones the boards name

Bone	What the scene is pointing at
Frontal bone / forehead	Upper third, brow shelf, hairline
Zygomatic bone	Cheek width, highlight, bizygomatic width
Maxilla	Midface projection, nose base, upper teeth
Nasal bones	Bridge; see nose
Lacrimal / ethmoid (orbital plate)	Medial orbit wall — thin, not a rating target
Palatine	Hard palate; palate expansion
Vomer / inferior turbinate	Airway, not PSL
Mandible	Jawline, chin, ramus, gonial angle
Sphenoid bone	Skull base; pterygoids; spheno-occipital synchondrosis
Temporal	Temple hollow, zygomatic process of the arch

Paired bones: nasal, maxilla, zygomatic, lacrimal, palatine, inferior nasal concha. Unpaired: vomer, mandible, and the frontal contribution to the brow.

What bone does not do

Chewing blocks do not grow a zygoma. Bonesmashing is injury. Adult sutures are not Play-Doh; see cranial suture and growth plate. Soft tissue (fat, lids, hair) still decides how much bone you see.

Gallery

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  Side, labeled
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  Side, numbered
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  Front, numbered
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  Simplified
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  Gray 190 — skull from the front
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  Gray 194 — sagittal section of skull
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  Gray 1194 — surface anatomy of the head
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  Frontal bone
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  Zygomatic
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  Mandible
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  Sphenoid
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  Nasal bone
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  Palatine
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  Temporal
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  Occipital

Images from Wikimedia Commons via InstantCommons.

See also

• Looksmaxxing glossary
• Orbit
• Midface
• Facial thirds
• Facial masculinization surgery