Cephalometric study of the relationship between facial morphology and ethnicity: Review article

Abstract

Morphology of the face depends on many factors such as sex, ethnicity, race, climate, nutrition, genetic constitution and socio-economic status. The goal of cephalometrics, at its most fundamental level, is to compare the patient or victim with a normal reference group, so that differences between the person's actual facial morphology and those expected for his or her racial or ethnic group are revealed. This study therefore, was designed to examine the review on a preliminary cephalometric study of the relationship between facial morphology and ethnicity. Here, we review contemporary advancement in the importance of cephalometry, cephalometric analysis, cephalometric methods and cephalometric indices in relation to facial morphology and ethnicity. The present study gives an account of full knowledge of the use of the outstanding knowledge of preliminary cephalometric study of the relationship between facial morphology and ethnicity in anatomy, forensic study and related. Keywords: Preliminary cephalometric, Facial morphology, Cephalometric analysis, Cephalometrics indices, Cephalometrics methods