Kun Hwang

When Did We Learn to See Malocclusion? Böcklin’s Death, the Deviated Mandible, and the Orthodontic Eye

Arnold Böcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle (1872) is usually interpreted as a modern memento mori: the artist pauses at his work while Death plays a fiddle immediately behind him. Yet a closer anatomical inspection reveals another striking feature. Böcklin's own...

Exculpatory Beauty of Phryne Through the Lens of a Plastic Surgeon

The legendary trial of Phryne, a celebrated Greek courtesan accused of impiety in fourth-century BCE Athens, has long served as a provocative example of the influence of beauty on human judgment. According to ancient tradition, her advocate Hypereides secured her acquittal not th...