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Facial reconstruction for forensic sculpture aims to reproduce the face of an individual for identification. This technique is based on the knowledge of the facial soft-tissue thickness, which differs in terms of sexual dimorphism. However, in terms of asymmetry, the real significance of the soft-tissue thickness on both sides of the face is not considered to make an approximation of the morphofacial characteristics of an individual. This study analyzed the facial tissue thickness of 32 adult Spanish corpses of both sexes in six bilateral cephalometric landmarks through the needle puncture technique, comparing the measurements of right and left sides. No significant differences were found when comparing the soft-tissue thickness on the right and left sides in the total sample (p

The study investigates the presence of sexual dimorphism in the size of the permanent teeth among Chilean individuals. Mesiodistal and bucolingual diameters were measured in the teeth of 150 patients between 18 and 24 years old, 67 males and 83 females (excluded were third molars and pieces with large cavities and fillings). The largest were found in males; the differences in mean bucolingual diameters with p

The aim of the present study is to analyze the differences in the soft facial tissue thicknesses measured in corpses without fixing, with recent death, and in embalmed corpses. 30 male human corpses were used; they were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of a conservation method. Fifteen bodies, without any method of conservation, with an average age of 38.6 years (SD 8.37) and Fifteen preserved bodies by means of the intravascular injection technique of fixing conservative solution on the basis of formaldehyde, with an average age of 38.4 years (SD 7.67). In each one of them the thickness was measured in eight medium and six bilateral paramedium landmarks, using the needle-punction method. The descriptive statistical ones were calculated and the t test was applied with 95% of significance. All the landmarks, except for right exocanthion and left and right gonion, presented bigger thickness in the cadavers embalsamed. You differ significant they were in the Trichion, glabella, nasion, pogonion, right superciliare, right supraorbital, right infraorbital, right gonion, left superciliare, left supraorbital, right infraorbital landmarks. El propósito de este estudio fue analizar las diferencias en el grosor tisular facial entre cadáveres frescos y conservados. Se utilizaron 30 cadáveres de sexo masculino, 15 de los cuales presentaron una data de muerte media de (SD) y los otros 15 fueron cadáveres conservados mediante inyección intravascular de solución fijadora conservadora en base a formol. En cada uno de ellos fueron medidos los grosores en 8 puntos medianos y 6 puntos paramedianos bilaterales, utilizando el método de punción con aguja. Se calcularon los estadísticos descriptivos y luego se aplicó el t test con un 95% de significancia. Todos los puntos, con excepción de Exocanthion derecho y Gonion derecho e izquierdo, presentaron grosores mayores en los cadáveres conservados. Diferencias significativas se encontraron en los puntos Trichion, Glabela, Nasion, Pogonion, Superciliar derecho, Supraorbitario derecho, Infraorbitario derecho, Gonion derecho, Superciliar izquierdo, Supraorbitario izquierdo, Infraorbitario derecho.

La reconstrucción facial a través de la escultura forense es una técnica en la cual, mediante el modelado con materiales plásticos sobre un esqueleto cefálico, se reproducen la estructuras blandas de la cara, con el propósito de ayudar al proceso de identificación médicolegal. Uno de los datos más relevantes para reproducir esta técnica corresponde a los valores de grosor tisular en determinados puntos del esqueleto craneal. En el presente estudio se analizaron los grosores tisulares, en 14 puntos craneométricos medianos y paramedianos de 32 cadáveres de individuos, españoles mediante la introducción de agujas en la piel. Los cadáveres fueron divididos en grupos de acuerdo a sexo y grupo etáreo. Se encontraron diferencias significativas en los valores de grosor tisular entre hombres y mujeres de ambos grupos etáreos, observándose en los hombres un mayor grosor tisular en los puntos medianos, mientras que en las mujeres resultaron mayores los grosores medidos en puntos paramedianos The facial reconstruction for forensic sculpture is a skill in which, by means of the shaped one with plastic materials on a cephalic skeleton, one reproduces soft parts of the face with the intention of serving to the process of medicolegal identification. One of the most relevant information to reproduce this skill are the values of thickness tisular in certain points of the skeleton craneal. In the present study the thickness tissues are analyzed in 14 craneometrics points median and paramedian of 32 Spanish corpses by means of the introduction of needles from the facial skin. The corpses were divided in groups of agreement to sex and age to that they belong. They found significant differences in the values of thickness tisular between men and women of both groups etáreos, being observed that the men a major thickness tisular in the median points, whereas in the women the thickness measured in points turned out to be major paramedian