Craniofacial morphometric study of adult Ogoni people of Nigeria

Abstract

Craniofacial morphometric study is a constituent of both cranial and facial parameters such as fronto-occipital circumference, intercanthal distance, canthal index and circumference interorbital index and over the years they have showed consistent important landmark for anatomist and surgeons. In the view of1 craniofacial anthropometry is a technique used in bothphysical and clinical anthropology comprising precise and systematic measurements of the bones of the human skull.The usefulness of head circumference, intercanthal distances, canthal index and circumference interorbital index to clinicians in description diagnosis and surgical treatment of abnormal skeletal and facial patternsand manufacturing of spectacle frames and lenses cannot be overemphasized2 and their also reported the male mean canthal indices of Ijaw and Igbo tribes of Nigeria to be 37.04 and 32.59 respectively and female Ijaw as 33.11 and female Igbo as 32.51.