[Status and potentials of the newly modified Kollmann method (facial reconstruction based on the skull)].

The authors discuss briefly the status of the method of plastic face-reconstruction after Kollmann. Results of fundamental research are treated as well as the standardization of technical processes. The difference to the His-method is discussed and it is stated that the newly modified method after Kollmann now seems to be suitable to allow a restricted application in the skull-identification. Moreover it may now be used to clear up anthropological questions, while in the past it did not always prove to be successful. In no case however artistically satisfactory results can be expected, not are they intended. For this purpose the His-method should be used as usual.