THE ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR AND VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE GROWING CHILDREN WITH CLASS III MALOCCLUSION BY LATERAL CEPHALOMETRIC MEASUREMENT

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Journal of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 2003;30(2):291-297.
Published online May 31, 2003.

THE ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR AND VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE GROWING CHILDREN WITH CLASS III MALOCCLUSION BY LATERAL CEPHALOMETRIC MEASUREMENT

측모두부방사선 사진을 이용한 성장기 III급 부정교합아동의 전후방적, 수직적 악골관계에 대한 연구

양규호, 최남기, 김성남

전남대학교 치과대학 소아치과학 교실 및 치의학 연구소

Abstract

While making diagnosis and the treatment plan for the growing children who visited at Chonnam National University Hospital for orthodontic treatment, authors obtained 8 lateral cephalometric measurements in antero-posterior and vertical relationship such as APDI, WITS, ANB, SN-MP, ODI, PFH/AFH, Y-axis, SUM for children aged 7 to 9 with class III malocclusion and compared them with these of 73 children of elementary school aged 7 to 9 with proper profile and normal occlusion in Gwangju. The results were as follows: 1. Between normal occlusion and class III malocclusion, ANB, SN-MP, ODI, SUM, except PFH/AFH and Y-axis showed statistically significant differences(p<0.05). 2. Between mesurements to describe skeletal disorder of antero-posterior relationship such as APDI, WITS, ANB and skeletal disorder of vertical relationship such as SN-MP, ODI, PFH/AFH, Y-axis, SUM, all of them in both normal occlusion and Class III malocclusion showed significant correlation, except Y-axis, SUM correlation(p<0.01). 3. Wald' statistics of WITS, ANB and APDI expressing skeletal disorder of antero-posterior relationship showed 7.118, 5.148, 0.741, respectively and Wald' statistics of ODI, Y-axis, PFH/AFH, SN-MP, SUM were presented 28.348, 2.238, 1.376, 0.090, 0.089, respectively. Therefore, WITS and ODI could be considered as useful diagnotic measurements for class III malocclusion.

Key Words: Class III malocclusion, Normal occlusion, Antero-posterior & vertical relationship