Anterior open bite--cephalometric evaluation of the dental pattern.
The purpose of this study was to compare the dental pattern of patients with anterior open bite malocclusion to that of individuals with normal overbite by utilization of lateral cephalograms, panoramic radiographs and study casts. The findings showed that there was no significant difference in the inclination of the occlusal plane (SN.PlO) and position of the maxillary and mandibular incisors (1-NA, 1-NB) between both groups of individuals; but the angles of inclination of the maxillary and mandibular incisors (1.1, 1.NA and 1.NB) differed statistically between patients with anterior open bite of the individuals that presented normal overbite, which suggests that the anterior open bite may be of dental origin.
Stuani
Adriana Sasso
AS
Department of Pediatric Clinics, Preventive and Social Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Stuani
Andréa Sasso
AS
Stuani
Maria Bernadete Sasso
MB
Saraiva
Maria da Conceição Pereira
Mda C
Matsumoto
Mírian Aiko Nakane
MA
D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D003765:Models, Dental; D024343:Open Bite / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric