"A child's face broadens and lengthens, because faces grow downward and outward. Secondary teeth grow in, and <B>the bridge of the nose rises.</B> The cranium expands, the eyes narrow, the mouth widens and the nose lengthens. Light-colored hair tends to darken. By age twelve, the face looks fairly mature, with the chin forming and the nose still growing. Eventually the cheekbones take on more prominence and eyebrows fill in."
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal...ics/art/6.html
So watching out for bias, I thought about ear and nose growth. Are they different from the rest of the body? Probably not – the outer or external ear is mostly cartilage and skin, with a little fat and muscle and a supply of blood vessels and nerves. Does cartilage and skin continue to grow throughout life? Yes and no. The cells continue to divide, grow, mature and die, just like cells in the gut, liver, bones and elsewhere. And the amount of skin and cartilage in our bodies obviously increases as we grow. But cartilage does not keep growing at the same rate throughout life, and while cartilage keeps dying and being replaced, in the vertebrates it does stop increasing in size in adulthood – which is what is usually meant by ‘keeps growing’. This information can be found in most introductory physiology text books.
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the cartilage does not keep getting bigger and bigger to any known extent. We would all look very different if it did. We would get big lumps in our noses, ears, thoraxes, shoulders, wrists, knees and ankles – but at least osteoarthritis would not be such a problem! ...
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...9208.Dv.r.html
Re: Why It's Important to have a Good Plastic Surgeon: Scarlett Johansson
You said it's thinner, nicer and prettier now, and I said it isn't. 
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