title: Facial asymmetry: an X-ray study.
abstract: On the basis of an assessment of cranial anteroposterior X-ray films in 38 normal adult males were analyzed facial asymmetries at the frontal plane. It was demonstrated that facial asymmetries are of a fluctuating type with the slightest asymmetries in the region of the upper face, somewhat larger deviations of mandibular characteristics and with most marked asymmetries in the region of the cranial vault. Thus neither of the two sides of the face predominates significantly over the other side. The differences are only of individual character.
authors.affiliation: Chair of Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Skvarilová
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002508:Cephalometry; D005146:Facial Asymmetry / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009915:Orbit / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015050:Zygoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging