Pharyngeal Airway Dimensions in Skeletal Class II Young Adolescents : Cephalometric Study
10.5933/JKAPD.2018.45.1.98
- Author:
Minkyoung CHEON
1
;
Sunmi YANG
;
Jaehwan KIM
;
Seonmi KIM
;
Namki CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Chonnam National University, Korea. nkchoi@jnu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Pharyngeal airway;
Lateral cephalogram;
Skeletal pattern;
Peak height velocity
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Humans
- From:
Journal of Korean Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
2018;45(1):98-108
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
This study aimed to evaluate the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal dimensions of the patients with skeletal class II division 1 or division 2 patterns during the pre-peak, peak, and post-peak growth periods for comparison with a skeletal class I control group (79 for pre-peak, 40 for peak, 40 for post-peak). Total 159 lateral cephalograms (70 for skeletal class I, 51 for skeletal class II, division 1, and 38 for skeletal class II, division 2) were selected.The growth of anteroposterior dimension of the pharyngeal airway were statistically significant among growth periods. The dimension for the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal airway space was the smallest in the division 1 skeletal class II group followed by class II division 2 and skeletal class I.
