Glabellar Wrinkles Pattern among Medical and Dental Students of a Tertiary Care Centre of Nepal

Abstract

Introduction: Glabella is the midline elevated portion of our face between the eyebrows. Contraction of the eyebrows leads to the formation of wrinkles or furrows. These wrinkles vary from person to person and between male and female too. These wrinkles pattern is more obvious with aging. This region also has particular attention for botulinum toxin injection. The purpose of this study was to assess the glabellar wrinkles pattern among medical and dental students of a tertiary care centre of Nepal.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2024 to October 2024 among 265 medical and dental students of Chitwan Medical College. In total 265 students participated in the study. This study was photographic analysis of glabellar contraction patterns of healthy medical and dental students. The data was recorded in proforma and later entered into Microsoft Excel and then transferred to SPSS statistics for Windows, version 16.0 (SPSSS Inc., Chicago, Ill., USA) and analysed using descriptive statistical tests.

Results: A total of 265 students with the mean age 20.28±0.80 years participated in the study. The majority of participants were males 146 (55.1%).  The most frequent pattern observed was ‘U’ pattern (121, 45.7%) followed by ‘11’ pattern (92, 34.7%) while the ‘ X’ pattern was least found (3, 1.1%). In gender-based distribution, the ‘U’ pattern was more in males (73, 50%) than in females 48 (40.3%) while the ‘11’ pattern was more among the females (52, 43.7%).

Conclusions: In conclusion, the ‘U’ pattern was most frequent pattern observed followed by ‘11’ pattern. The ‘X’ pattern was the least frequent pattern observed.