Anthropometric Evaluation of Cranial Indexes.

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Craniometric measurements are used inanatomy, anthropometry and surgical fields, especially inmaxillofacial and plastic surgery. The aim of this study was toinvestigate the cranial index values anthropometrically and tocontribute to the literature data.Material and methods: For this purpose, 30 craniumbones with unknown age and gender belonging to AnatomyDepartment, Faculty of Medicine and University of Cukurovawere used.Results: In this study, maximum cranial width, maximumcranial length, bizygomatic width, cranial height, upper faceheight and minimum frontal width were measured. The meanand standard deviation values of the measured values are;139.15 ± 9.89, 172.20 ± 7.90, 125.24 ± 9.47, 126.07 ± 6.23,65.07 ± 5.40, 95.33 ± 5.09 mm, respectively. By using thesevalues, cranial index, transverse cranio - facial index, cranialheight - width index, cranial height - length index, upper facialindex and fronto - parietal index values were calculated. Themean and standard deviation of index values are 81.59 ± 5.60,90.21 ± 6.69, 92.30 ± 6.16, 73.73 ± 3.79, 52.61 ± 5.52, 68.76± 4.86 mm, respectively.Conclusions: The results of our study were classified andcompared with the studies performed in different populations.We believe that the obtained data will contribute to theresearch and literature data in clinical areas.