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The European Journal of Orthodontics 2008 30(6):614-620; doi:10.1093/ejo/cjn065
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Orthodontic Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Secular trends in the European male facial skull from the Migration Period to the present: a cephalometric study

Erwin Jonke*, Hermann Prossinger**, Fred L. Bookstein**,***, Katrin Schaefer**, Markus Bernhard** and Josef W. Freudenthaler*

* Department of Orthodontics, Medical University of Vienna
** Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
*** Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Address for correspondence Dr Fred L. Bookstein, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1091 Vienna, Austria, E-mail: fred.bookstein{at}univie.ac.at


  Abstract

Secular trends in the facial skull over three Central European samples spanning more than 13 centuries were examined. Data were 43 conventional cephalometric landmark points for samples dating from 680 to 830 AD (29 male Avars), from the mid-19th century (49 adult Hapsburg Monarchy males), and from the 20th century (54 living Austrian young adult males).

Analyses by standard methods of geometric morphometrics demonstrated shape differences by data and by size, with a strong interaction of these with sample, in that group mean differences were different for small and large individuals (allometry is different from period to period). The oldest sample, from the Migration Period, exhibited allometric features that may possibly be Turkic. There are implications for the orthodontist interested in growth trends or growth predictions in ethnically mixed patient samples.


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