STUDY OF FACIAL INDEX AMONG KURDISH POPULATION

Background: Assessment of facial types have always been of great interest because they are used in forensic medicine, plastic surgery, Orofacial surgery, pediatrics, dentistry, and for diagnostic comparisons between patients and normal populations This study was conducted in order to evaluate the facial type of Kurdish population in Sulaimani City, Kurdistan region-Iraq by using facial index. Methodology: The present study was conducted in the school of Dentistry, University of Sulaimani on 200 adults comprising of 105 females and 95 males aged 18-24 years. The measured parameters were morphological facial height and breadth. The standard spreading caliper with scale was used for the measurement of facial parameters. Results: The mean morphological facial height for both genders was 105.255 ± 8.9 and mean morphological facial width was 116.8±8.7. The mean facial index was 90.6 ±9.65 for both genders. The dominant facial phenotype was leptoprosopic (50.5%) followed by mesoprosopic (19%),hypereuryprosopic (15.5%),euryprosopic (13.5%) and hyperleptoprosopic (1.5%) in both genders. Conclusions: The dominant facial type in the Kurdish population of Sulaimani is leptoprosopic in both genders, however in males mesoprosopic and euryprosopic types were more common than in females and in females leptoprosopic and hypereuryprosopic were more common than in males.