Determinação do sexo atraves da area formada pelo triangulo da face superior

Abstract

Sex determination through the area formed by the upper facial triangleThe identification is distinguished by a identity comprovation acl, lhal qualifies something or someone in lhe middle of others on the same kind, individualizing it. However, this process is becoming more and more complex the smallest is the data numbers about the examined material.The purpose of lhe following work was verifying lhe possiblity of identifying lhe gender, through five cranial measures: Distance between the right and left frontomalar suture, distance between the anterior nasal spine and nasion, distance between the anterior nasal spine and left frontomalar, distance between anterior nasal spine and righl frontomalar suture and lhe area formed by the cranial points: right and left frontomalar suture, and anterior nasal spine. Among 168 skulls we have studied, 72 belong to lhe female gender, and 96 belong to male gender, and they are ali over 20 years old. The measures were oblained by a digital pachymeter Mitutoyo, among the references previously standardize. The information were submited to statistics analisys to verify the sexual dimorphism.The results showed lhal lhe variables: area formed by lhe righl and left frontomalar suture points, and anterior nasal spine and lhe distance