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Head Face Medicine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Thermography and thermoregulation of the face Jan Rustemeyer*1, Jürgen Radtke2 and Andreas Bremerich1 Address: 1Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Klinikum Bremen Mitte, Bremen, Germany and 2Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Universit?tsklinik Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum-Langendreer, Bochum, Germany Email: Jan Rustemeyer* - janrustem@t-online.de; Jürgen Radtke - info@evkhamm.de; Andreas Bremerich - Andreas.Bremerich@klinikum- bremen-mitte.de * Corresponding author Published: 15 March 2007 Received: 21 February 2006 Accepted: 15 March 2007 Head Face Medicine 2007, 3:17 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-3-17 This article is available from: /content/3/1/17 ? 2007 Rustemeyer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Although clinical diagnosis of thermoregulation is gaining in importance there is no consistent evidence on the value of thermography of the facial region. In particular there are no reference values established with standardised methods. Methods: Skin temperatures were measured in the facial area at 32 fixed measuring sites in 26 health subjects (7–72 years) with the aid of a contact thermograph (Eidatherm). A total of 6 measurements were performed separately for the two sides of the face at intervals of equal lengths (4 hours) over a period of 24 hours. Thermoregulation was triggered by application of a cold stimulus in the region of the ipsilateral ear lobe. Results: Comparison of the sides revealed significant asymmetry of face temperature. The left side of the face showed a temperature that was on the average 0.1°C lower than on the right. No increase in temperature was f