Resumo (EN)
Introduction – The dedication and studies of facial proportions started long before Christ, with Hyppocrates and continued with Dürer and da Vinci, who introduced the studies of divine proportions by Fibonacci. Upon the discovery of X ray by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the study of the growth and development of the human body became more accessible. After the coming of cephalometer by Hofrath and Broadbent in 1931, radiographic research on the skull face complex gained momentum and several cephalometric analyses were created by a number of orthodontics in order to understand these events. Such analyses incorporated several cephalometric points, but their names and acronyms were different. Material and Method – The objective of this work was to gather all cephalometric points utilized in the cephalometric analyses in Ricketts and Schwarz – Faltin lateral norm so that it would be possible to determine the location and abbreviation of such points and therefore, standardize these abbreviations to be utilized in the cephalometric analyses by the same authors at University Paulista – (UNIP). Results – Despite the differences regarding the names and the acronyms, the location of all cephalometric points was always the same, which is more importante in order to conduct a cephalometric analyses. Conclusion – Thus, it is intended to standardize the location and abbreviations of all cephalometric points utilized in the cephalometric analyses by Ricketts and Schwarz-Faltin at UNIP.