title: Photographs of study casts: an alternative medium for rating dental arch relationships in unilateral cleft lip and palate.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the reliability of using photographs of study casts as an alternative to casts for rating dental arch relationships.
  
  
  METHODS
  Repeated-measures study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cleft Palate Center of the University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  
  
  METHODS
  Records of children with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) (n = 49) at the age of 9 years were included.
  
  
  METHODS
  Statistics of intra- and interexaminer agreement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No significant differences were found between the rating of dental casts and photographs of dental casts, using the Goslon Yardstick.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Photographs of dental casts provide a consistent, reproducible method for rating dental arch relationships in patients with UCLP at the age of 9 years and provide a reliable alternative to the application of the Goslon Yardstick on dental casts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics and Oral Biology, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Pieter J P M
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Nollet
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Katsaros
authors.forename: Martin A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: van 't Hof
authors.forename: Catharina A M
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Bongaarts
authors.forename: Gunvor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Semb
authors.forename: William C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Anne Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kuijpers-Jagtman
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000150:complications*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications*; D003724:Dental Arch / Q000473:pathology; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D006801:Humans; D007574:Jaw Relation Record / Q000379:methods*; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003765:Models, Dental; D015588:Observer Variation; D023861:Photography, Dental; D015203:Reproducibility of Results