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10.3390/healthcare11131881
Title: | The Facial Characteristics of Individuals with Posterior Crossbite : A Cross-Sectional Study |
Authors: | Kienkas, Karlīna Jākobsone, Gundega Šalms, Ģirts Department of Orthodontics Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Medicine |
Keywords: | posterior crossbite;facial morphology;stereophotogrammetry;3.2 Clinical medicine;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database |
Issue Date: | Jul-2023 |
Citation: | Kienkas , K , Jākobsone , G & Šalms , Ģ 2023 , ' The Facial Characteristics of Individuals with Posterior Crossbite : A Cross-Sectional Study ' , Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) , vol. 11 , no. 13 , 1881 . https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131881 |
Abstract: | Facial morphology is known to be influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Scientific evidence regarding facial parameters in patients with posterior crossbite is lacking. This study aimed to investigate the association between posterior crossbite and facial parameters. This cross-sectional study included 34 adolescents with and 34 adolescents without posterior crossbite in the age range from 13 to 15 years. Facial surface scans were acquired with a 3dMD imaging system, and landmark-based analysis was performed. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman’s correlations. Individuals in the control group had lower face heights (females: p = 0.003, r = 0.45; males: p = 0.005, r = 0.57). The control group females presented with smaller intercanthal width (p = 0.04; r = 0.31) and anatomical nose width (p = 0.004; r = 0.43) compared with the crossbite group females. The males in the control group had wider nostrils. In the control group, significant correlations among different facial parameters were more common, including the correlations between eye width and other transversal face measurements. On the contrary, the facial width was correlated with nasal protrusion (r = 0.657; p < 0.01) and the morphological width of the nose (r = 0.505; p < 0.05) in the crossbite group alone. In both groups, the philtrum width was linked with the anatomical and morphological widths of the nose. Conclusions: Patients with posterior crossbites have increased face height and different patterns of facial proportions compared with individuals without crossbites. |
Description: | Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. |
DOI: | 10.3390/healthcare11131881 |
ISSN: | 2227-9032 |
Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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