Use of Frontal Sinus and Nasal Septum Pattern as an Aid in Personal Identification and Determination of Gender: A Radiographic Study

Morphometric Evaluation of the Frontal Sinus and Nasal Septum as an Aid in Personal and Gender Identification- A Retrospective Digital Radiographic Study

“…Frontal sinus patterns when combined with nasal septum patterns may also be useful for identification and gender determination of an individual. In our study, males and females were equal in number i.e 70 males and 70 females (50% each), which is similar to the studies conducted by Verma K et al (2017) 4 15 . In contrast to these, 150 males and 130 females were taken in study published by Nagarj T (2017) 16 and 74 males and 75 females were enrolled in study published by Verma P et al (2015) 7 .…”

“…The present study also compared the mean width of FS in males and females stating that males had mean width of 53.15 ± 7.15 mm, which was highly significant greater than mean width of 33.22 ± 8.87 mm in females. The above data suggested that mean height and width of FS is greater in males as compared to females and can be used as a criterion for gender determination in forensics which was in accordance with the studies published by Yoshino M (1987) 19 and Verma K et al (2017) 4 .…”

“…FS, NS, sellaturcica, vascular groove patterns etc., are unique anatomical structures for human skull identification in forensics 4 . Like finger prints, even the FS is very unique in every individual, even in monozygotic twins.…”

Imaginological exams of the frontal sinus in human identification

“…Regarding the type of image exam selected, it was verified that more than half of the studies used PA (posteroanterior) radiography. [14][15][16][17]19,20,22,[26][27][28][29][30] Thus, it was noted that conventional extraoral radiography is still the most viable and most used in the research, also emphasizing the increasing use, but still at a smaller scale, of threedimensional imaging resources, such as concomitant computed tomography. 10,13,18 In relation to the methodologies and identification parameters of the frontal sinus, the largest number of analyzes used both quantitative and morphological parameters.…”

“…Among all the parameters used to measure and classify the frontal sinuses, height and width were widely used to obtain asymmetry indices. 10,14,15,19,21,26,28,30 In addition to asymmetry, depth values, 21 volume 10,21,29 , and the anteroposterior diameter of the frontal sinuses 25,29 were repeated in several articles from the present analysis.…”