Faсе asymmetries study and comparison in the students from Egypt and Iraq dependent on their leading extremity and gender

Abstract

Egyptian dentists performed management of unilateral temporomandibular ankylosis associated with facial asymmetry in children , in the adults , bilateral anklosis , modified bimaxillary distraction osteogenesis to correct facial asymmetry taking into account gender-age aspect, condyles replacement with costochondral grafts at temporomandibular joint unilateral and bilateral ankylosis. Iraqi dentists work are dedicated to craniometric asymmetry, the facial asymmetry and bite force relationship to handedness in the adult of both genders, maxillary dental arch asymmetry in children , facial dimensions and asymmetry in the clinically symmetrical faces with skeletal Class Class III malocclusion in the eared adults, primary repair of nasal asymmetry at unilateral cleft lip in babies and the bilateral ones , as well as cleft palate, treatment of clinically evident skeletal mandibular asymmetry , orthopanthomography usage for mandibular asymmetry assessment as an aid in temporomandibular problems diagnosis . specific orthodontic designations, photography usage for dental and facial asymmetry assessment . different condylar index (higher in females) thus condylar asymmetry at bruxism , temporomandibular joint assessment (condylar asymmetry) of I’rc and Post Prosthetic Treatment of Partially Edentulous Patient of different ages by radiography method. The people of Basrah have different racial and ethnic background, there are Semites which are the Arabs and Syrian (Assyrian & Chaldean), Arian, who are the Armenian. Kurdish and Persian, and then there is the mixed group result from interracial marriages. This study is a cross sectional study with a comparative component of face parameters measurement conducted in Basrah govemorate.