Reference

Procedures, explained

LooksRatio's clinical ceiling names a procedure next to each measurement it could move. These pages say what those procedures actually are: how they work, what recovery is like, and what the published complication rates are.

Not medical advice. These pages are informational. They are not a recommendation to pursue anything, and they cannot tell you whether you are a candidate for any of it. Every projection in the app assumes a successful outcome from a licensed provider, and models nothing about cost, candidacy or risk.

Surgical · nose Rhinoplasty Nasal index Surgical · mandible Jaw contouring surgery Gonial angle, Jaw-to-cheekbone width Surgical · skeletal Orthognathic (jaw) surgery Mandibular plane Surgical · chin Genioplasty or chin implant Chin height Surgical · midface Cheek (malar) implants Cheekbone flare Surgical · eyelid Canthoplasty and canthopexy Canthal tilt Injectable · lips Dermal filler (lips) Lip fullness, Upper-to-lower lip ratio Surgical · brow Brow lift and browpexy Brow position Surgical · eyelid Upper eyelid surgery and ptosis repair Eye balance Surgical · eyelid Lower eyelid surgery and the tear trough Under-eye tone Procedural · skin Laser resurfacing and chemical peels Skin evenness Surgical · lips Lip lift Upper lip length, Upper-to-lower lip ratio Minor surgical or injectable · neck Submental liposuction and deoxycholic acid Gonial angle Injectable · lower face Masseter reduction Jaw-to-cheekbone width

Why these and not others

A procedure is listed against a measurement only when there is one established operation with a clear mechanism for changing it. Several measurements still have no such thing. Facial thirds, the fifths, facial symmetry and the rest are left out on purpose rather than matched to something vague, because naming a surgery for a ratio that no surgery reliably changes would be the most misleading thing this app could do. Facial symmetry is the clearest case: there is no symmetry operation, only the treatment of whichever asymmetric structure is responsible.

Nothing unproven appears here either. Techniques that circulate online without a licensed procedure behind them are not on this list and will not be added.

Several of these pages exist as the smaller answer rather than the bigger one. A soft jawline is more often fat under the chin than the shape of the bone; a wide lower face is sometimes an enlarged chewing muscle; a thin upper lip is sometimes long skin rather than small lip. Those pages sit next to the operation they are an alternative to, and each says which situation it is actually the right answer for, because a report that names jaw surgery and stays silent about the alternatives is not being cautious, it is being incomplete.

Why your report names two of these and not fourteen

The procedure section of a report lists an operation only where the measurement it addresses is genuinely off and the operation would genuinely move it. Everything else is counted and reported as a line saying so. A report that listed every procedure with a measurement attached would be a catalogue rather than a recommendation, and the two entries that actually applied would be read with the same weight as the ten that did not.