Dex·Lower face
Gonial angle
Community canon
The squareness at the back of the jaw, where the ramus meets the body of the mandible. Sharper angles get prized as the canonical masculine tell on PSL threads, alongside chin projection and low body fat. Round, soft angles signal what the community calls the Adam Driver minus everything else look.
Clinical canon
Community-aligned cosmetic ranges sit at 115 to 122 degrees. Older orthodontic references list 125 to 130 as normal. Below 110 indicates a deep bite or short ramus, above 135 a long-face pattern. Sex-dimorphic: males skew lower (sharper), females higher.
- Ideal
- 115°–122° (community) · 125–130° (some clinical refs)
- Acceptable
- 110°–135°
Live target from metrics config
gonial_angle · deg
- Ideal · Male
- 115° – 130°
- Acceptable · Male
- 110° – 135°
- Ideal · Female
- 120° – 135°
- Acceptable · Female
- 115° – 140°
How it's measured
Lateral cephalogram or lateral photo. Connect the gonion (jaw corner) to the menton anteriorly and to the inferior ramus posteriorly. The angle at the gonion is the gonial angle.
Perceptual effect
Sharper gonial angles read masculine, dimorphic and lean. They also visually narrow the lower face from the front, lifting the cheekbone-to-jaw transition.
Improvement paths
Masseter Botox slims a wide angle but does not change bone. Jaw filler or implants sharpen a soft angle. Mastication training mildly hypertrophies the masseter. Body fat below 15 percent reveals the underlying angle most reliably.
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