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Facial Feminization Surgery: A Review of 220 Consecutive Patients

The face plays an important role in the gender incongruence seen in transsexual individuals. Gender incongruence is cur- rently diagnosed as per the World Professional Association for Transgender Health standard of care 7.1 It occurs in one in 30,000 male-assigned births and one in 100,000 female-as- signed births.2 There are prominent differences between the male and the female facial anatomy (bony and soft tissue) which can be surgically altered to change the visual perception of the face.