Journal of Korean Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 2018;45(1):98-108

doi:10.5933/JKAPD.2018.45.1.98

Pharyngeal Airway Dimensions in Skeletal Class II Young Adolescents : Cephalometric Study

Minkyoung CHEON 1 ; Sunmi YANG ; Jaehwan KIM ; Seonmi KIM ; Namki CHOI

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Keywords

Pharyngeal airway; Lateral cephalogram; Skeletal pattern; Peak height velocity

Country

Republic 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.