Facial Dimensions in Infants

Abstract

Anthropometric measurements of facial dimensions were studied in randomly selected 290 infants. Values were obtained and reference curves for inner canthal, outer canthal, palpebral fissure lengths, and canthal indices were con- structed. The inner canthal distances did not differ from those obtained for Caucasian infants, but the outer canthal and palpebral fissure lengths were longer in our infants than those of Caucasian children. It is concluded that it would be inaccurate to use Caucasian standards for our infants in delimiting and defining congenital malformation syndromes with facial features.