Mécanique crânio-faciale et occlusion. L’histoire de l’architecture crânio-faciale et des déséquilibres maxillo-mandibulaires par la téléradiographie de profil

The human skull located at the top of that of vertebrates, according to the conception of Greco-Roman Antiquity was at the centre of reflections and studies by many philosophers, anatomists, surgeons and other doctors of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the first anatomist Alcmaeon of Crotone (5th century BC), to the naturalists of the 19th century, the skull, its brain and its anatomy compared with other mammals are particularly scrutinized, but according to dogmas prohibiting the dissection of the human body, until the first successful experiments of Andrew Vesalius, the father of modern surgery. With human palaeontology, comparative anatomy and zoology, cephalometry took its first steps, at a time when the racialization of peoples was at the centre of debates between naturalists. It was at the end of the 19th century that the first analyses of facial typology by an orthodontist were known, developed throughout the 20th century, supported by a revolutionary imaging tool, teleradiography.