Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the intellectual climate, the ideas and concepts that accompanied the successive stages of acquisition of the present, though imperfect state of knowledge concerning cranio-facial growth and development. The history of science is replete with examples of several independent lines of investigation converging upon a common focal point, without knowledge of each other's efforts. To a great extent, this has been and continues to be the status of studies in cranio-facial ontogeny. Three major disciplines are active in this area. They may be classified as: (1) anthropological-medical, (2) anatomical-zoological, and (3) orthodontic-dental. The first two disciplines share a virtually identical temporal origin, while the third discipline later arose directly from the anthropological. The chapter also reviews the current concepts and problems regarding the functional cranial analysis and discusses two important schools that have presented newer concepts in cranio-facial ontogeny. The first of these is the French school of DeLattre and Fenart and the other is the “German” school of authors. The chapter further discusses the newer concepts implicit within recent experimental work regarding the ontogenetic aspects of cranio-facial growth and some of the newer problems that are being studied.
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