Oral Health and Dental Management

Reliability of various skeletal indicators in assessing vertical facial soft tissue pattern

International Conference and Exhibition on Dentistry

March 18-20, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Maheen Ahmed,Attiya Shaikh and Mubassar Fida

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

A proportionate relationship among different facial structures is the key to an esthetic and pleasing facial appearance. Until the 20th century, diagnosis and treatment planning had been based on Angle?s paradigm.With the advent of soft tissue paradigm, the trend in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning has been significantly affected.The aim of this study was to determine which of the commonly used skeletal analyses best correlates with the soft tissue parameters for assessing vertical facial pattern of an individual.Thus an accurate diagnosis can be made with the elimination of unnecessary analyses, ensuring an efficient treatment plan. The sample was obtained from orthodontic patients presenting to Dental clinics at AKUH, Karachi, Pakistan. Various landmarks and measurements were made on pretreatment lateral cephalograms. The sample size of 192 subjects was equally divided into high, normal and low angle groups on the basis of soft tissue vertical pattern. One-way ANOVA was use to examine difference among the groups (p≤0.05). Pearson?s correlation coefficient between various skeletal analyses and soft tissue parameters was determined for both males and females and different vertical groups.In males, a strong positive correlation was found between skeletal LAFH/TAFH and soft tissue LAFH/TAFH (r=0.485, p≤0.01), where as in high angle group a moderate positive correlation was found between the aforementioned variables. (r=0.349, p≤0.01).