Comparative study between conventional and cone beam CT-synthesized half and total skull cephalograms.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to compare cephalometric measurements obtained from conventional cephalograms with total and half-skull synthesized cone beam CT (CBCT) cephalograms.


METHODS
Cephalometric analyses of 30 clinically symmetric patients were conducted by a calibrated examiner on conventional and CBCT-synthesized cephalograms (total, right and left). Reproducibility was investigated using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The Bland-Altman analysis was used to assess the agreement of the measurements from each factor obtained by conventional, total, right and left CBCT-synthesized cephalograms.


RESULTS
The ICC was above 0.9 for most of the 40 cephalometric factors analysed, revealing similar levels of reproducibility. When the measurements obtained from conventional and CBCT-synthesized cephalograms were compared, the Bland-Altman analysis showed a strong agreement between them.


CONCLUSIONS
Half-skull CBCT-synthesized cephalograms offer the same diagnostic performance and equivalent reproducibility in terms of cephalometric analysis as observed in conventional and total CBCT-synthesized cephalograms.
Department of Surgery and Orthopedics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. gabiliedke@yahoo.com.br
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GS
Liedke
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Delamare
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MB
Vizzotto
H L D
HL
da Silveira
J R
JR
Prietsch
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Dutra
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da Silveira
D000293:Adolescent; D002508:Cephalometry / Q000379:methods*; D054893:Cone-Beam Computed Tomography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results