Point · Me

Menton (Me)

The lowest point of the bony chin — the bottom of anterior face height.

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At Beginner a placement counts as found within 2.1 mm of the reviewed reading.

How to find it

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Common errors

Each figure is the reviewed reading of Menton (Me) and a typical miss, on the same ceph, at the distance the mistake usually goes.

the pointthe miss4.1 mm

Slid back along the lower border

The border is flat for several millimeters, so there is nothing to stop the point moving posteriorly. This is the measured beginner bias here, and it is nearly a millimeter.

the pointthe miss6.7 mm

Placed on the soft-tissue outline

Submental soft tissue hangs below the bone and is often the more obvious edge on a bright ceph.

Used in

4 measurements are built on it. Miss it, and every one of them moves.

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