%0 Journal Article %T Reliability of Cephalogram in Determining Skull Gender Dimorphism %J Iranian Journal of Orthodontics %I Iranian Association of Orthodontists %Z 1735-5087 %A Butt, Sidra %A Ahmed, Imtiaz %D 2016 %\ 06/01/2016 %V 11 %N 1 %P 1-6 %! Reliability of Cephalogram in Determining Skull Gender Dimorphism %K Skull Dimorphism %K Dental Radiology and Imaging %K Lateral Cephalogram %K Discriminant Function %K Forensic Dentistry %R 10.17795/ijo-5321 %X Background: The forensic anthropologists have been vastly studied the dimorphism in teeth, hair, pelvis, skull and in bone sizes. Objectives: To investigate the gender dimorphic potential of cephalometric parameters. Materials and Methods: Thirteen angular and twenty-one linear lateral cephalometric measurements were analyzed on randomly selected manual tracings of sixty-nine male and sixty-nine female cephalograms between the ages twenty to fifty years. Results: 91.3% males correctly classified in the data, on the basis of discriminant function we made, similarly, 97.1% females were correctly classified in their specific group by the help of this discriminant function. The percentage of skulls correctly classified with this function was 94.2%. Conclusions: 94.2% of original grouped cases correctly classified. For higher results extensive research with large sample size and both linear and angular cranial dimorphic traits for gender identification is proposed. %U https://www.ijorth.com/article_245691_256047774af8a63f2a15050396bde7f3.pdf