Facial soft tissue thickness in Japanese female children.
Facial reconstruction techniques used in forensic anthropology are based on soft tissue thickness measurements. Many studies of facial tissue thickness in adults have been published that take racial background into account. However, the only data on facial thickness in children are derived from studies of American, British, and Hispanic children. The authors therefore measured facial tissue thickness in Japanese children, with the aim of providing data for producing accurate facial likenesses and to evaluate matching of skull-photo superimposition images. Cephalometric X-ray images give an approximately 10% enlargement from true size and can demonstrate the relationship between soft and hard tissue. Facial soft tissue thickness was measured at 12 anthropological points using X-ray cephalometry.
1st Department of Oral Anatomy, Matsumoto Dental University, 1780 Gobara Hirooka, Shiojiri, Nagano 399-0781, Japan. hajimeu@po.mdu.ac.jp
Hajime
H
Utsuno
Tooru
T
Kageyama
Toshio
T
Deguchi
Mineo
M
Yoshino
Hiroo
H
Miyazawa
Katsuhiro
K
Inoue
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000293:Adolescent; D044466:Asian People; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D018732:Forensic Anthropology; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan