Estimation of Stature Using Cephalic and Facial Measurements

Abstract

Stature (living height) is one of the primary characteristics for the identification of a person along with other biological profiles – age, sex, and race. The need for Identification of a person can occur in situations like a mass disaster, unidentified bodies, and many civil cases and criminal cases. As any part of the human body can be found as evidence, there is a need for a study to investigate the significant correlation between stature and cephalon-facial dimensions in the human body. The study was done on 400 medical students of south Indian origin. The study showed a significant correlation between cephalic measurements and stature.