Dimples are a generic name for indentations of the skin. The 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 underlying bone. Dr William Jollies, Professors and Chairman of Anatomy at the Medical College of Virginia, says 'dimples probably are due to some development 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 toward dimples seems to be hereditary. You have your father to blame, Michael Douglas.
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