Abstract
Cephalofacial measurements and indices are used to estimate sex and race. The aim of this is to document the craniofacial characteristics and sex differences from cephalic index and facial index of the studied groups. Maximum head length, maximum head width, morphological facial length and morphological facial width were determined for 901 Gujarati (676 male, 225 female) and 300 Non-Gujarati (100 male, 100 female) of Gujarat, India. The standard deviation of cephalic and facial index of Gujarati is 5.3345 and 6.0040 and of Non-Gujarati is 7.3472 and 6.0525 respectively. The mean cephalic index and facial index in study were 77.20 and 75.19 respectively in Gujarati and 74.13 and 75.17 respectively in Non-Gujarati. According to the cephalic index Gujarati subjects (40.2% males, 42.7% females) mainly belongs to mesocephalic and dolicocephalic and Non-Gujarati subjects belongs to dolicocephalic (80% males) and brachycephalic (30% females). According to the total facial index both the studied groups are mainly distributed into hypereuryprosopic followed by euryprosopic types of the face.
Highlights
India is a nation with such a complex and varied ethnic composition of its population
Maximum head width, morphological facial length and morphological facial width were determined for 901 Gujarati (676 male, 225 female) and 300 Non-Gujarati (100 male, 100 female) of Gujarat, India
N, mean, minimum, maximum, standard deviation and t-test of head height, head width, facial height, facial width, cephalic index and facial index of Gujarati and Non-Gujarati population are presented in Table 3 and 4
Summary
India is a nation with such a complex and varied ethnic composition of its population. No two people can ever be alike in all their measureable traits. Indian population is classified on the basis of anthropometric data collected from various population of India. Human face curve has always been an interesting topic for anatomists, anthropologists, plastic surgeons and artists. Physical anthropologists have been measuring skull for years and obtained results enabled them to trace the relationship between the races as they believe that the form of skull remain the same in each race and only different races show different facial index and cephalic index [1]. Cephalofacial measurement plays a very important role in personal identification in forensic application
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