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Subject Area

Pediatrics

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

Objective To assess anthropometry of the lower zone of the face (philtrum length, philtrum width, intercommissural distance, and lower lip to chin length) in preschool-aged children in Menoufia Governorate. Background All health personnel having a responsibility toward the care of children should be sufficiently familiar with normal patterns of growth and milestones so that they can recognize overt deviations from the normal range as early as possible, for underlying disorders to be identified and given appropriate attention. Patients and methods This was a cross-sectional study conducted on 516 Egyptian apparently healthy preschool children of both sexes (between 3 and 6 years old) who attended outpatient clinics or admitted in the pediatric department of Menoufia University Hospital and preschool nurseries in the period from September 2019 to July 2020. Results Regarding the studied parameters of the lower zone of the face in this age group, we observed that the mean value of the philtrum length of children was 1.29 ± 0.12 cm. The mean value of the philtrum width of children was 0.944 ± 0.55 cm. The mean value of the intercommissural distance of children was 3.79 ± 0.21 cm. The mean value of lower lip to chin length was 3.53 ± 0.16 cm. There was a statistically significant increase in the intercommissural distance and lower lip to chin length in males compared with females in the studied children (P = 0.000 and 0.000, respectively), whereas there was no statistical difference between philtrum length and philtrum width with respect to sex (P = 0.948 and 0.06, respectively). Conclusion We drew many centiles for these measures for Egyptian children which can be a reference for every researcher who can plot his/her results on our centiles to detect any deviation from the normal.

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