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<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1409-00152020000200102</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Ana&#769;lisis morfolo&#769;gico de rugosidades palatinas en una poblacio&#769;n costarricense]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Morphological analysis of palatal rugae pattern in Costa Rican population]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fernández Chaves]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José Manuel]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Organismo de Investigación Judicial Unidad de Odontología Forense, Departamento de Medicina Legal Universidad de Costa Rica]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>37</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>102</fpage>
<lpage>114</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200102&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200102&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200102&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo establecer los patrones morfolo&#769;gicos presentes en las rugosidades palatinas de una poblacio&#769;n costarricense mediante el me&#769;todo de Trobo y efectuar un análisis estadístico con las variables de sexo, edad y afinidad biolo&#769;gica. Se eligiron al azar 70 pacientes a los que se realizaron impresiones y modelos dentales superiores, se documentó el sexo, edad y afinidad biolo&#769;gica de cada uno, junto con el consentimiento informado. Se analizó estadi&#769;sticamente la distribucio&#769;n de patrones de ge&#769;nero, edad y afinidad biolo&#769;gica. Las te&#769;cnicas para el ana&#769;lisis de la informacio&#769;n fueron las distribuciones de frecuencia, cruce de variables, comparacio&#769;n de medias con base en el ana&#769;lisis de variancia, coeficiente de correlacio&#769;n de Spearman; pruebas de Chi cuadrado, para evaluar la independencia entre las caracteri&#769;sticas de edad y sexo. Estas pruebas sen&#771;alan un predominio de tipos de rugas palatinas rectas y de tipo simples tanto en la poblacio&#769;n masculina como femenina, sin encontrarse variacio&#769;n en el nu&#769;mero de rugas asociadas a sexo o afinidad biolo&#769;gica; pero si&#769; se determinó diferencia por grupo de edad, disminuyen en nu&#769;mero conforme se incrementa la edad. Por otra parte no se presento&#769; dimorfismo por sexo, lateralidad ni posicio&#769;n.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The present study aimed to establish the morphological patterns present in the palatal rugae in a Costa Rican population by means of the Trobo method and to carry out a statistical analysis with the variables of sex, age and biological affinity. Seventy patients were randomly chosen to whom impressions and superior dental models were made, the sex, age and biological affinity of each one was documented, together with the informed consent. The distribution of gender, age and biological affinity patterns was statistically analyzed. The techniques for the analysis of the information were the frequency distributions, crossing of variables, comparison of means based on the analysis of variance, Spearman's correlation coefficient; Chi square tests, to evaluate the independence between the characteristics of age and sex. These tests indicate a predominance of straight and simple types of palatal rugae in both the male and female population, with no variation in the number of rugae associated with sex or biological affinity; but a difference was determined by age group, they decrease in number as age increases. On the other hand, there was no dimorphism due to sex, laterality or position.]]></p></abstract>
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