One mode of measuring the facial angle in projection is that of drawing the facial profile with the help of special instruments; or else of taking a photograph in perfect profile and tracing and measuring the facial angle on the picture.

Principal Linear Measurements:

Total length of visage: from line of hair root to point of chin.

Total length of face: from the nasion to the point of the chin.

Length of the nose: from the nasion to the subnasal point.

Height of mandible: from the upper edge of the lower incisors to the lower edge of mandible.

Subnase-mental height: from the subnasal point to the point of the chin.

Bizygomatic diameter: between the two bizygomatic arches.

Bimalar diameter: between the two malar points.

Bigoniac diameter: between the two gonia.