Chewing Side Preference, Facial Asymmetry and Related Factors in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to find out how the preferred chewing side (PCS) affects facial asymmetry, what kind of factors affect PCS, and whether there are differences in facial asymmetry between symmetrical and asymmetrical masticators.

Material and methods

The study included 748 subjects (females n=452, males n=296) born in 1985-1986 in Northern Finland (Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986, NFBC 1986). Subjects' faces were captured in facial 3D images with stereophotogrammetry technology, and they filled in a questionnaire concerning oral health. A comprehensive dental examination was done by a dentist. Subject´s chewing side preference was studied by chewing a piece of paraffin, cotton roll or parafilm. Asymmetry was measured from 3D images with different asymmet

SUBMITTER: Heikkinen EV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11423695 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature