Photographs of study casts: an alternative medium for rating dental arch relationships in unilateral cleft lip and palate.
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.
Nollet
Pieter J P M
PJ
Department of Orthodontics and Oral Biology, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Katsaros
Christos
C
van 't Hof
Martin A
MA
Bongaarts
Catharina A M
CA
Semb
Gunvor
G
Shaw
William C
WC
Kuijpers-Jagtman
Anne Marie
AM
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