a b s t r a c t -The results of the study and the comparison of the head lateral teleroentgenogram, involving 292 persons (both sexes) in their first adulthood period, featuring physiological occlusion of permanent teeth, helped identify the occurrence of different growth types of the facial area of the head (vertical, neutral, horizontal). The analysis of lateral teleroentgenograms included evaluation of the mandible angle size, the total Bjork angle, the ration between the posterior and the anterior face height, the Ricketts face angle, the angle between the occlusal and mandibular planes, and the angle shaped by the skull base plane and the mandibular plane. The obtained measurements allow stating that most people with physiological occlusion reveal the neutral type of the facial part growth (61.99 ± 2.84%), while the horizontal and the vertical types of growth were observed in 30.48 ± 2.69% and 7. 53 ± 1.55% of the total number of the participants, respectively.
K E y w o r d s -physiological occlusion; facial area of head;teleroentgenogram; jaw growth type.
i n t r o d U C t i o nThe issues of the facial skull growth have been the focus of experts' attention for the last four decades. One of the criteria for assessing the maxillofacial area status is the jaw growth. The type of the jaw growth is recommended to be evaluated based on the data obtained through the head teleroentgenogram examination in the lateral projection [4,11,17,25, 28,30,34].