A simplified method to determine the potential growth in Orthodontics patients
Keywords:
Potential growth, stage determination of skeletal maturation, middle phalanx of third fingerAbstract
A cross-sectional technological innovation research was conducted to tender asimplified method to determine the potential growth of 150 Orthodontics patients
aged between 8 and 16 admitted in the Orthodontics Clinic from the Stomatology of
Ciudad de La Habana in 2004 and 2006. Each patient underwent left hand X-ray
and for the first time in Cuba and in the same sample it was possible to study three
assessment methods of potential growth (TW2 Method, Grave and Brown and stage
determination of maturation of middle phalanx of third finger). After determination,
we estimated the correlation and concordance among them, noting high correlation
coefficients (rho females= 0,888 and rho= males 0,921) and of concordance
(Kappa females= 1,000 and Kappa males= 0,964). We conclude that the
assessment of potential growth in Orthodontics patients may be conducted by X-ray
of middle phalanx of third finger of left hand being a simplified method to this end.
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