Morphometric analysis of the skull base and palatal regions for gender identification using CBCT: a retrospective study

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Introduction

Patients & Methods

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Definition of anatomical landmarks used

Skull base parameters

Statistical analyses

Results

Gender differences among age

Gender differences among measured variables

Age differences among variables

Correlation between different studied craniometric variables in female and male groups

Discriminant analysis using studied variables to discriminate between genders

Discussion

Strength of the study

Limitations of the study

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Asmaa Uthman conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Hesham Marei conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Walid Elsayed conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Sura F. Al-Bayati conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Hawraa Shams Aldeen conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Shishir Shetty conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Musab Hamed Saeed conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Natheer H. Al-Rawi conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

University of Sharjah’s Human Subjects Research Ethics Committee

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data is available in the Supplemental File.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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