Change in facial shape in two cohorts of Japanese adult female students twenty years apart

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 818-823

  Hossain, M G ^a   Saw, A ^a   Ohtsuki, F ^b   Lestrel, P E ^c   Kamarul, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniofacial measures; Facial shape; Japanese females; Multiple regressions; Proscopic index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIZYGOMATIC BREADTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FACIAL SHAPE; FEMALE; FRONTAL BREADTH; HEAD BREADTH; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEAD HEIGHT; HEAD LENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL FACIAL HEIGHT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSOPIC INDEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEPHALOMETRY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 81055154959     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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