Facial, upper facial, and orbital index in Batak, Klaten, and Flores students of Jember University

• Main Author: Masniari Novita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Airlangga 2006-09-01
• Series: Dental Journal: Majalah Kedokteran Gigi
• Subjects: anthropology forensic; craniometric index; population; PA radiography
• Online Access: http://e-journal.unair.ac.id/index.php/MKG/article/view/1090

<span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Forensic anthropology is a neglected branch of physical anthropology in Indonesia. The role of anthropology in forensics including </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>medical and dental forensic is identification. Anthropology could be used in identify skeleton including sex, age, height and race. The </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>aim of this study was to know the facial index, the upper facial index and the orbital index among three different students race </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>population of Jember University used Posteroanterior radiography. The subjects of this study were Batak, Klaten and Flores students </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>of Jember University. The craniometric indices in this study according to the El-Najjar classification. The result showed that all the </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>subjects facial index classified as hypereuryprosopic with the mean between 78.05–79.184. Batak population upper facial index </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>classified as hyperueryene, while Flores and Klaten population were euryene. All the population orbital index classified as hypsiconch.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>