Original Article: Anthropometric Study of the Facial Index in the Population of Medical Students in Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Journal Title: GMJ Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Facial anthropometry is useful in individual identifcation and reconsructive surgery. In the present sudy, we aimed to determine the facial characterisic of the Iranian population through anthropometric sudy. Materials and Methods: In a cross sectional sudy, 200 (100 male and 100 female) volunteer medical sudents (aged 20-25 years) of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were selected. The facial variables including Total Facial Height (TFH), Upper Facial Height (UFH) and Facial Width (FW) were measured and accordingly the Total Facial Index (TFI) and Upper Facial Index (UFI) were calculated. The data were analyzed using Statisical Software (SPSS). Results: The mean age of subjects was 22.97±1.12. the mean TFH, UFH, FW, TFI and UFI was 11.155 cm, 7.05 cm, 11.68 cm, 95.75, and 60.55, respectively. The mos common types of face were hyperleptoprosopic (54%) and hyperleptene (54%) based on TFI and UFI, respectively. There were signifcant differences in the facial characterisic including TFH (P<0.0001), UFH (P<0.0001), FW (P=0.02), TFI (P<0.0001), and UFI (P<0.0001) of males and female subjects. Conclusion: According to the results, the mos frequent face type was hyperleptoprosopic based on TFI and hyperleptene based on UFI in Iranian population, which showed the differences in the various populations. Additionally, the values of facial characterisics were higher in males than females. So, sexual dimorphism was recorded according to the facial measurements of Iranian population which can be considered in the reconsructive surgeries.
Authors and Affiliations
Masoumeh Dodangheh, Tahmineh Mokhtari , Sina Mojaverrostami, Mostfa Nemati, Sam Zarbakhsh , Ali Arabkheradmand , Gholamreza Hassanzadeh
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