A Cephalometric Evaluation of the Integumental Profile of French Canadian Children

Abstract

This study was undertaken in order to obtain standards on the soft tissue facial contour in a French Canadian sample based on analysis of lateral head-plates. Twenty boys and twenty girls were studied longitudinally from 6 to 9 years of age and the same was applied to twenty children of each sex followed from 10 to 13 years of age. No attention was paid to the occlusion and the cases were chosen on the sole basis of acceptable facial profile. The results are analysed and further investigations to be done are described.