Patterns of Change in Facial Skeletal Aging.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Research in facial aging has focused on soft-tissue changes rather than bony changes despite evidence of the importance of underlying bony structural changes. Research has also been limited by comparing different patients in separate age groups rather than the same patients over time.

Objective

To longitudinally document patterns of change in the facial skeleton and determine a consistent methodology for measuring these changes.

Design, setting, and participants

Case series study of university hospital system records using facial computed tomographic (CT) images timed at least 8 years apart in adults initially aged 40 to 55 years with no history of facial surgery who required repeated facial imaging that included the entire midface and cranium.

Main outc

SUBMITTER: Paskhover B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710626 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature