Sex Identification Through Mental Foramen Position Utilizing Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) In Iraqi Inhabitants Sample (A Retrospective Study)

Abstract

Background: One of the hardest jobs in forensic dentistry has been to identify and determine the sex of unidentified remnants of human skeletal tissue.

Aim of the study: By assessing measurements of the foramen of mental location in an Iraqi inhabitant’s specimen, this study seeks to define cone beam computed tomography's (CBCT) role in sex definition and assess the foramen of mental magnitude as a tool for sex identification.

Materials and Methods: To examine the foramen mental, 50 CBCT radiographs were chosen, 25 for both sexes. It has been detected the distance between the inferior and superior borders of the foramen of mental and the lower border of the mandible on both sides by drawing tangents to the inferior and superior borders of the foramen of mental and then erecting perpendiculars to the lower border of the jaw from those tangents. The obtained data was statistically analyzed using the chi-square test and PSSP version 25 to assess the two sexes.

Results: Males had significantly greater average magnitudes of IL and SL on the left-side of the body than females. However, the study sample's right-side distances were not statistically significant.