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AmJOrthodDentofacialOrthop.2009Jan135(1):7987.doi:10.1016/j.ajodo.2006.11.025.

Agedependantcephalometricstandardsasdeterminedby
multilevelmodeling.
vanDiepenbeekAF1,BuschangPH,PrahlAndersenB.

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INTRODUCTION: Thepurposeofthisstudywastoevaluatethefeasibilityof
constructingagedependantcephalometricstandardsforwhitesubjectsbyusing
3datasets.
METHODS: ThedatasetswerethesamplesfromtheFelsLongitudinalStudy
(UnitedStates),theMichiganGrowthStudy(UnitedStates),andtheNijmegen
GrowthStudy(TheNetherlands).The3mixedlongitudinalsamplesprovided
datafor218girlsand231boysbetween9and14yearsofageandwere
comparedbasedon4cephalometricangles:SNA,SNB,ANB,andSN/GoMe.
Curvefittingandstatisticalcomparisonswereperformedwithmultilevelmodeling
procedures.
RESULTS: All4anglesshowedlinearchangesovertime.SNAandSNB
increased,whereasANBandSN/GoMedecreased.Basedonpairedsample
comparisons,thesamplesdisplayedstatisticallysignificant(P<0.05)differences
for50%ofthegrowthvelocitiesand8%to17%oftheintercepts(sizeofthe
angleat11years).TheSNAandSNBanglesshowedsmallandinconsistent
differencesacrossthesamples.TheANBanglefortheFelsboysdecreasedless
thanintheother2samples.TheNijmegenandFelsgirlshadthegreatestand
theleastdecreases,respectively,intheSN/GoMeangle.Mostsample
differencesdecreasedovertime.
CONCLUSIONS: Basedonthegrowthdifferencesidentified,weconcludedthat
sagittalandverticaljawrelationshipshavedifferentpatternsofgrowthindifferent
samplesofwhitesubjectsindiscriminatepoolingofdata,tocreateage
dependantcephalometricstandardsforwhitesubjectsisnotrecommended.

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