CHANGES OF FACIAL PARAMETER “DISTANCE FROM RHENION TO ZYGION” IN BETWEEN JAUNSARI AND GARHWALI ETHNIC GROUPS OF UTTARAKHAND REGION, INDIA.

Abstract

Background and Objectives: Anthropometry in forensic areas is a very important division of human medical anatomy. Ethical issues are avoided and no use of any invasive methods in this study. 1) To study the distance betwee Objectives: n Rhenion and Zygion in the Jaunsari and Garhwali ethnic groups of the Uttarakhand region of India.; 2) To analyze the gender difference in facial parameters of the Jaunsari and Garhwali Tribe if any; 3) and statistical signicance of the difference in the facial parameters of the Jaunsari and Garhwali Tribe if any. The main Aim is to study facial anthropometric parameters in adult Jaunsari and Garhwali Tribe of District Dehradun, Uttarakhand. This study has been Materials and Methods: carried out in the department of Anatomy, SGRRIMS & HS, ddn, 2021-2022. During this period, 200 subjects i;e- 100 males and 100 females in both ethnic groups, were born and brought up in the Uttarakhand region basically, aged 21 years and above up to 35 years young subjects taken up. Longitude 78.017198°, Lattitude 30.302821°, 437, Chamanpuri, Niranjanpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India. The methodology adopted for the anthropometric measurements was of Singh and Bhasin (1968) and the concerned measurements were done. Statistical data were Result: obtained, observed and analyzed. It provided valuable data for the community for future use. There were signicant variations in all the measured facial parameters distance between Rhenion and Zygion in the male and female populations of the Jaunsari and Garhwali Tribe. The differences in means of facial indices between the two races were statistically weak and nonsignicant (< 0.005). The mean values of facial indices found in the study were 63.70±11.05 in Garhwali females and 77.97±20.47 in Garhwali males. In this Discussion and Conclusion: study, the p-value is 8.08 in Jaunsari females and 2.25 in Jaunsari males; in the case of both males & females the p-value indicates that the result is statistically nonsignicant. On the other hand p- the value is 3.02 in Garhwali females and 7.15 in Garhwali males. In all cases, the p-value indicates that the result is again not statistically signicant. So, we conclude that majority of all genders Conclusion: of Garhwali and Jaunsari ethnic groups; there is not any more difference in their facial indices distance between rhenion and zygion. The result of our study has conrmed that there was sexual dimorphism of facial parameter distance between Rhenion and Zygion. There were no signicant differences in facial parameters distance between Rhenion and Zygion amongst the male and female populations of the Jaunsari and Garhwali Tribe