WHAT ARE DIMPLES? AND WHY DO ONLY SOME PEOPLE HAVE THEM?

Dimples are a generic name for indentations of the skin.

They are produced when muscle fibres are attached to the deep surface of the skin, such as in the cheek or chin, or where the skin is attached to bones by fibrous bands, such as the elbow, shoulder and back.

Dimples are most likely to appear where the skin is most tightly attached to the underlying bone.

Dr William Jollie, Professor and Chairman of Anatomy at the Medical College of Virginia, says 'dimples probably are due to some developmental fault in the connective tissue that binds skin to bone'.

So those dimples we've long envied are actually an anatomical flaw! And the tendency towards dimples seems to be hereditary.

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