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  • Anthropology
  • Forensic Science
  • Radiology
  • Human Anatomy

Background:

  • Frontal sinus morphology exhibits significant individual variation, but the developmental trajectory and age of stabilization remain poorly understood.
  • Existing ontogenetic studies are often conflicting, cross-sectional, or utilize lateral cephalograms, failing to capture clinically relevant morphological features.
  • Longitudinal analysis of frontal sinus morphology from frontal radiographs is crucial for understanding when its shape stabilizes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the age at which frontal sinus morphology attains its final shape using a longitudinal sample.
  • To investigate potential sex-based differences in the ontogeny of frontal sinus shape.
  • To provide data relevant to clinical and forensic applications of frontal sinus analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Manual tracing of frontal sinus outlines from 935 posterior-anterior (PA) frontal radiographs of 111 individuals (ages 8-29).
  • Elliptical Fourier analysis (EFA) and principal components analysis (PCA) to quantify shape variation.
  • Longitudinal plotting of principal component scores against age, with Loess growth curves and mixed-effect models.

Main Results:

  • Frontal sinus morphology primarily stabilizes by approximately 20 years of age, irrespective of sex.
  • Significant sexual dimorphism in ontogeny was observed: females attain stable frontal sinus shape earlier (around 14-16 years) than males (around 18-20 years).
  • Younger individuals generally exhibit shorter, flatter sinuses that increase in vertical complexity with age.

Conclusions:

  • Frontal sinus shape and size stabilization timing is consistent, suggesting a linked developmental process.
  • Understanding frontal sinus ontogeny is vital for accurate interpretation of fossil hominin variation and modern human radiographic analysis.
  • Knowledge of stabilization age has critical implications for pediatric clinical practice (sinonasal disease, surgery) and forensic identification.