[Determination of the cutaneous sagittal profile of the face from knowledge of the bony profile in the European young adult].

Abstract

We use a pattern of 51 living subjects of which sex is known, 21 years aged, and of which we have teleradiographic tracing (with setting off cutaneous outline). Vestibular orientation is made and statistical average-type is established by vestibular coordinates showing position of 6 skeletal points and 7 cutaneous ones. Their spatial variability is studied. Cutaneous elements are situated relatively to their bony homologous, by regression equations, single and multiple, on each of the two coordinates. This study conclude is: in spite of the use of complex statistical methodologies, uncertainties persists as for validity of face reconstruction for a given subject.