Modelling human hard palate shape with Bézier curves

• Main Authors: Janssen, Rick, Moisik, Scott Reid, Dediu, Dan
• Other Authors: Komarova, Natalia L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Human; Hard Palate
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88039; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44518
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

People vary at most levels, from the molecular to the cognitive, and the shape of the hard palate (the bony roof of the mouth) is no exception. The patterns of variation in the hard palate are important for the forensic sciences and (palaeo)anthropology, and might also play a role in speech producti...