Evaluation of facial soft-tissue thicknesses in a population attended by the Seção Técnica de Verificação de Óbitos of the city the Guarulhos São Paulo / Avaliação de medidas da espessura dos tecidos moles da face em uma amostra populacional atendida na Seção Técnica de Verificação de Óbitos do município de Guarulhos - São Paulo

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2008

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The auxiliary technique of identification known as Facial Reconstruction makes possible to obtain a face identification from the contours of the tissue around the skull, increasing the probabilities of recognition. The reliability of this technique depends on the evaluation of the thickness of the soft tissues that cover the skull. Those measurements were evaluated on a sample of studied cadavers in STVO - Guarulhos (“Seção Técnica de Verificação de Óbitos”), São Paulo, state Brazil. The thickness has been manually measured using the needle puncture technique in 10 anatomical landmarks of the skull located in the midleline and in 11 bilateral points of 40 cadavers of both sexes, aged between 17 and 90 years, classified by skin color and nutritional state. The average results (mm), of the median points for males (n=26) and females (n=14) were: Supraglabella 5,01/4,37; Glabella 5,58/4,66; Nasion 5,90/5,09; Rhinion (end of nasal bone) 5,21/4,29; Mid-philtrum 10,60/7,73; Supradentale (upper lip margin) 9,10/8,74; Infradentale (lower lip margin) 10,62/9,42; Supramentale 11,00/9,16; Mental eminence 10,64/9,40; Menton 10,40/8,78 and of bilateral points: Frontal eminence 4,95/3,98; Supraorbital 6,99/5,84; Suborbital 6,56/6,01; Inferior malar 11,25/10,00; Lateral orbit 9,10/9,23; Zygomatic arch 9,28/8,88; Supraglenoid 11,61/10,82; Gonion 12,71/10,97; Supra M2 (maxilla)16,41/14,43; Occlusal line 14,40/11,71 e Sub M2 (mandible) 14,60/11,32. Descriptive statistics calculations were made accordingly to T-tests, ANOVA and Tukey tests. Those calculations, when compared with other populations studies, showed different results, that lead to the need of using a specific table with values of the local population to implement the technique of facial reconstruction in skulls without an attributable identity.

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facial reconstruction legal dentistry reconstrução facial espessuras de tecidos moles identification forensic anthropology odontologia legal identificação antropologia forense soft-tissue thickness

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