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Article History

Received: 23 April 2024

Accepted: 26 August 2024

First Online: 8 September 2024

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: The model had signed written informed consent allowing the researchers to use her images (either original or photo-manipulated) to the study judges and also within the article. All the participants (judges) as well agreed to participate in the anonymous online survey. The protocol and its ethics were approved by the IRB of the Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran (ethics code: IR.AJUMS.REC.1400.564). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (including the Declaration of Helsinki); all experimental protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

: The first page of the questionnaire was an informed consent which asked the participants to begin the survey if they were consent to participate; yet the need for any signed informed consents by the survey participants were waived by the Institutional Review Board of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran (ethics approval code: IR.AJUMS.REC.1400.564). The photo-model signed informed consent allowing the researchers to use her image (either original or after photomanipulation) for the research and the article without the need for masking any parts of her face.