title: Transversal craniofacial growth evaluated on children dry skulls using V2 and V 3 canal openings as references.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to investigate the transversal relationships between two cephalometric landmarks and lines on the face using ovale, rotundum, greater palatine and infra-orbital foramina as references.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-four children dry skulls, 19 males and 15 females aged 0-6 years, were examined by computed tomography scanning by using constructed tomographic axial and frontal planes. The cephalometric transversal dimensions of the face skull were measured between the right and left landmarks from the orbital lateral wall and from the zygomatic arch. The cephalometric transversal dimensions of the base skull were measured between the right and left ovale, rotundum, greater palatine and infra-orbital foramina.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Statistical analysis using partial correlations, regardless of the age, showed strong relationships (p < 0.05) among transversal measurements with nerve canal openings and transversal distances of skull face.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We showed that the cranial base transversal growth was very strongly related to facial transversal growth from the postnatal period up to 6 years of age.
authors.affiliation: UFR Odontologie, URE01, Université Sophia-Antipolis-Pôle universitaire Saint Jean d'Angely, 24, avenue des Diables bleus, 06357, Nice Cedex 4, France, jeanclaudeh7@gmail.com.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Harnet
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lombardi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manière-Ezvan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chamorey
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008445:Maxillofacial Development; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development*; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000033:anatomy & histology