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Fabrication of Korean Skull Model

Kwan Hyun Youn ORD ID 1,  Kyung-Seok HU ORD ID 2,  Wu-Chul Song 3,  고기석 3,  김희진 ORD ID 4

1연세의료원
2연세대학교
3건국대학교
4연세대학교 치과대학 구강생물학교실 해부 및 발생생물학 연구실,

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Anatomy education using skull models has been widely performed for a long time and known that it is actually much convenient and economical. However, until now, most of skull models used in anatomy class are imported from the United State or Europe. Therefore, the models showed characteristics of Caucasian skulls, and had several differences from skulls of Koreans. Hence, we made a specific replica model of skull which have various Korean characteristics. We used Korean male skull (aged 50 years) without defect due to diseases or fractures. The silicon was poured over the skull in the cubic frame and hardened. We took out the skull from the silicon frame and poured the resin into the frame to duplicate the original skull. After defoamation and hardening the resin,the skull model was taken out of frame. And we modified defects which occurred during duplicated process and made detailed structures which unrevealed in real skull. After completion of the skull model, we measured ten items of anthropological characteristics of the Korean and American skull models and compared 9 categories of index. As a result, there were significant differences in length-breadth index, length-height index, frontozygomatic index, nasal index between the Korean and American skull models; As aforementioned, the skull model, compared to Caucasian skull models, had numerous distinctive Korean skull features and this model can be used for anatomy education in South Korea.

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