Correlation of Two Radiographic Methods of Skeletal Maturation Stages Determination in Class II Skeletal Malocclusion Patients at Puberty

The purpose of this comparative study was to evaluate the correlation between two radiographic methods used to evaluate skeletal maturation, hand-wrist analysis method and cervical vertebrae analysis method. Within the limits of this study, the cervical vertebrae maturation method might mislead the clinician when treating adolescent skeletal Class II patients at the pubertal growth spurt since it is not correlated with hand wrist skeletal maturation method.