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Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population
Background: Measurement of craniofacial parameters plays an important role in sex determination in forensic science. The present study was done using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans to evaluate the morphologic structure of the frontal sinuses and compare it with the width of nasal, crania...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10511843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37744763 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.137008.2 |
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author | Denny, Ceena Bhoraskar, Mohana Abdul Aziz Shaikh, Sabiha T S, Bastian Sujir, Nanditha Natarajan, Srikant |
author_facet | Denny, Ceena Bhoraskar, Mohana Abdul Aziz Shaikh, Sabiha T S, Bastian Sujir, Nanditha Natarajan, Srikant |
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description | Background: Measurement of craniofacial parameters plays an important role in sex determination in forensic science. The present study was done using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans to evaluate the morphologic structure of the frontal sinuses and compare it with the width of nasal, cranial, maxillary and mandibular width which might help us in sex determination. Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted using 142 full field of view (FOV) scans of patients archived from the department. The width of the nose, cranium, maxilla, and mandibular width was measured and compared with the frontal sinus between the two sexes. Results: A paired t-test was done to compare the linear measurements for both sexes' right and left frontal sinuses. The measurements were higher in males when compared to females. There was a statistically significant asymmetry (larger dimension on the left side) of the anterioposterior (p-value of 0.012) and superior-inferior dimensions in males (p-value of 0.135). Spearman's correlation showed that frontal sinus correlated with other craniofacial parameters like nasal, cranial, maxillary and mandibular width among both sexes. The frontal sinus, nasal, cranial, maxillary and mandibular widths were higher in males when compared to females (independent t-test). Discriminant function scores showed 66-68% accuracy to discriminate sex, using the anteroposterior dimension and mandibular width. Conclusions: The measurement of craniofacial parameters using CBCT can aid in determining the sex of unidentified and decomposed bodies. |
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spelling | pubmed-105118432023-09-22 Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population Denny, Ceena Bhoraskar, Mohana Abdul Aziz Shaikh, Sabiha T S, Bastian Sujir, Nanditha Natarajan, Srikant F1000Res Research Article Background: Measurement of craniofacial parameters plays an important role in sex determination in forensic science. The present study was done using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans to evaluate the morphologic structure of the frontal sinuses and compare it with the width of nasal, cranial, maxillary and mandibular width which might help us in sex determination. Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted using 142 full field of view (FOV) scans of patients archived from the department. The width of the nose, cranium, maxilla, and mandibular width was measured and compared with the frontal sinus between the two sexes. Results: A paired t-test was done to compare the linear measurements for both sexes' right and left frontal sinuses. The measurements were higher in males when compared to females. There was a statistically significant asymmetry (larger dimension on the left side) of the anterioposterior (p-value of 0.012) and superior-inferior dimensions in males (p-value of 0.135). Spearman's correlation showed that frontal sinus correlated with other craniofacial parameters like nasal, cranial, maxillary and mandibular width among both sexes. The frontal sinus, nasal, cranial, maxillary and mandibular widths were higher in males when compared to females (independent t-test). Discriminant function scores showed 66-68% accuracy to discriminate sex, using the anteroposterior dimension and mandibular width. Conclusions: The measurement of craniofacial parameters using CBCT can aid in determining the sex of unidentified and decomposed bodies. F1000 Research Limited 2023-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10511843/ /pubmed/37744763 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.137008.2 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Denny C et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Denny, Ceena Bhoraskar, Mohana Abdul Aziz Shaikh, Sabiha T S, Bastian Sujir, Nanditha Natarajan, Srikant Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population |
title | Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population |
title_full | Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population |
title_fullStr | Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population |
title_short | Investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: A 3D CBCT study on the South Indian population |
title_sort | investigating the link between frontal sinus morphology and craniofacial characteristics with sex: a 3d cbct study on the south indian population |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10511843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37744763 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.137008.2 |
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