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Facial reconstruction - : anatomical art or artistic anatomy?

This paper was produced as a culmination of the previous 10 years research and followed on from two invited presentations at the Anatomical Society meetings in Oxford in 2008 and 2009. Within the field of anatomy this journal is of very high international status and this is the first time that a paper on this subject has been accepted to the journal. The author is a leading expert in this field and this paper reviews and summarizes previous research to answer questions long associated with this field in relation to the art and science contribution and importance. The research leading to this paper focused upon the evaluation and standardization of facial reconstruction using clinical imaging of living subjects, anthropometry, photogrammetry, human dissection, surface scanning, skeletal assessment and automated statistical models. Evaluations of the accuracy, reproducibility and reliability of facial reconstruction methods were also carried out as a number of blind studies using skull reassembly, face pool recognition, resemblance ratings and superimposition.