1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry, India
2Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Senthil Kumaran M, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry, India. Contact no: +91 8940355577 Email: senthilkumaran.mohanraj@avmc.edu.in
Online published on 8 February, 2019.
Craniofacial anthropometry deals with the dimensions of head and face. Based on these measurements race and sex can be determined.
To correlate the concurrence of the head and facial type, and to determine the predominant head and facial type in males and females from southern parts of India.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students in a Medical College Puducherry, India. A total of 195 subjects (105 males and 90 females), above 18 years were studied. Cephalic and facial indices of all the subjects were analyzed based on Martin & Saller method.
There is no correlation between head types and facial types. However, Mesocephalic/medium head type was predominant in both males (44.76%) and females(48.89%) type. In the case of facial types, leptoprosopic/narrow face (30.48%) in males and hyper leptoprosopic/very narrow face (35.56%) was the most predominant in females.
This study not only appreciated the prevalence of the cephalic and facial phenotypes but also found the concurrence of both these phenotypes in males.
Cephalic index, facial index, head types, facial types, southern parts of India
