Anthropometrical measurements of external ear between normal and diabetic patients

Although external ear anthropometry is a cornerstone of forensic and reconstructive science, the morphological impact of systemic metabolic disorders remains unexplored. Therefore, it is of interest to compare bilateral external ear measurements between diabetic and healthy individuals to determine if chronic hyperglycemia significantly influences soft tissue morphology. Anthropometric data were collected from both cohorts and categorized by sex to evaluate symmetry and quantify deviations in ear dimensions. Thus, we show that right ear measurements were consistently larger than those of the left ear in both groups, with diabetic patients exhibiting statistically significant differences in specific morphological parameters compared to the control group. In each group, the measurements of the right ear for men and women were larger than those of the left ear, and there were significant differences in anthropometric measurements.