Facial soft tissue thickness in skeletal type I Japanese children
| Autor: | Yasunobu Umemura, Hajime Utsuno, Toru Kageyama, Mineo Yoshino, Toshio Deguchi, Hiroo Miyazawa, Katsuhiro Inoue, Hiroshi Nakamura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Cephalometry Radiography Facial profile Age and sex Hard tissue Pathology and Forensic Medicine Sex Factors Asian People Japan medicine Humans Child Orthodontics business.industry Racial Groups Age Factors Soft tissue Forensic anthropology Craniometry Surgery Facial reconstruction Face Forensic Anthropology Female business Law |
| Zdroj: | Forensic Science International. 172:137-143 |
| ISSN: | 0379-0738 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.01.004 |
| Popis: | Facial reconstruction techniques used in forensic anthropology require knowledge of the facial soft tissue thickness of each race if facial features are to be reconstructed correctly. If this is inaccurate, so also will be the reconstructed face. Knowledge of differences by age and sex are also required. Therefore, when unknown human skeletal remains are found, the forensic anthropologist investigates for race, sex, and age, and for other variables of relevance. Cephalometric X-ray images of living persons can help to provide this information. They give an approximately 10% enlargement from true size and can demonstrate the relationship between soft and hard tissue. In the present study, facial soft tissue thickness in Japanese children was measured at 12 anthropological points using X-ray cephalometry in order to establish a database for facial soft tissue thickness. This study of both boys and girls, aged from 6 to 18 years, follows a previous study of Japanese female children only, and focuses on facial soft tissue thickness in only one skeletal type. Sex differences in thickness of tissue were found from 12 years of age upwards. The study provides more detailed and accurate measurements than past reports of facial soft tissue thickness, and reveals the uniqueness of the Japanese child’s facial profile. # 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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