Table 1 Definitions of occlusal and mandibular measurements.
From: Unexpected malocclusion in a 13,000-Year-old Late Pleistocene young woman from Mexico
Occlusal measurements | Definition |
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Upper arch | |
Maxillary intercanine width | Distance between upper canines' cusp tips |
Maxillary first premolar width I | Distance between upper first premolars' buccal cusp tips |
Maxillary first premolar width II | Distance between upper first premolars' central fossae |
Maxillary second premolar width I | Distance between upper second premolars' buccal cusp tips |
Maxillary second premolar width II | Distance between upper second premolars' central fossae |
Maxillary intermolar width I | Distance between upper first molars' mesiobuccal cusp tips |
Maxillary intermolar width II | Distance between upper first molars' central fossae |
Lower arch | |
Mandibular intercanine width | Distance between lower canines' cusp tips |
Mandibular first premolar width I | Distance between lower first premolars' buccal cusp tips |
Mandibular first premolar width II | Distance between lower first premolars' central fossae |
Mandibular intermolar width I | Distance between lower first molars' mesiobuccal cusp tips |
Mandibular intermolar width II | Distance between lower molars' central fossae |
Mandibular measurements | Definition |
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Mandibular body length | Distance between gonion and menton |
Ramus height I | Distance between gonion and condyle |
Ramus height II | Distance between gonion and coronoid |
Intercondylar width | Distance from the external face of one condyle to the other |
Intercoronoid width | Distance from the apex of one coronoid process to the other |
Gonial angle | Angle formed by the intersection of the inferior border of themandible and the posterior border of the ramus |