Correlation of Two Radiographic Methods of Skeletal Maturation Stages Determination in Class II Skeletal Malocclusion Patients at Puberty
published by Damascus University
in 2011
in Dentistry
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
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.
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