The period from childhood to adolescence is characterized by accelerated growth, and developmental modeling of facial morphology is useful for forensic and biomedical practices. During the early ages, from 1 to 20 years, our face shapes grow rapidly, and genetic features may be responsible for individual differences in facial phenotypes.
Our face shapes change continuously from infanthood to adulthood.
Therefore, skull growth and facial morphology are of interest 3 to many scientific disciplines, especially anthropology, genetics, and forensic science 4. Differences in the relative size, shape, and spatial arrangement (vertical, horizontal, and depth) 1 of various facial features (e.g., eyes, nose, and lips) make each individual human face unique 2.
