作者: S. V. Patel , Ankur Zalawadia , Shailesh Patel , Srushti Ruparelia , Dhara Parekh
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摘要: Mandibular canines exhibit the greatest sexual dimorphism amongst all teeth. The present study was performed on 368 healthy MBBS students of Medical College, Bhavnagar (216 males, 152 females) 18 - 24 years with aim to investigate whether any correlation existed between odontometric measures including mandibular canine index, and sex determination in year 2006. Mean value intercanine distance higher males than females difference statistically highly significant (p value<0.01). Comparison mean values left right widths exhibited lesser females. variation width index (MCI) among genders showed difference. Our conclusively establishes existence a definite MCI.