Photographs of Study Casts: An Alternative Medium for Rating Dental Arch Relationships in Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate

Objective To investigate the reliability of using photographs of study casts as an alternative to casts for rating dental arch relationships. Design Repeated-measures study. Setting Cleft Palate Center of the University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Patients Records of children...

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Published in:The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal 2004-11, Vol.41 (6), p.646-650
Main Authors: Nollet, Pieter J. P. M., Katsaros, Christos, van 't Hof, Martin A., Bongaarts, Catharina A. M., Semb, Gunvor, Shaw, William C., Kuijpers-Jagtman, Anne Marie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Cleft Lip - complications
Cleft Palate - complications
Dental Arch - pathology
Dental Models
Dental Occlusion
Dentistry
Facial bones, jaws, teeth, parodontium: diseases, semeiology
Humans
Jaw Relation Record - methods
Malocclusion - diagnosis
Malocclusion - etiology
Medical sciences
Non tumoral diseases
Observer Variation
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Photography, Dental
Reproducibility of Results
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Summary:Objective To investigate the reliability of using photographs of study casts as an alternative to casts for rating dental arch relationships. Design Repeated-measures study. Setting Cleft Palate Center of the University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Patients Records of children with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) (n = 49) at the age of 9 years were included. Mean Outcome Measure(s) Statistics of intra- and interexaminer agreement. Results No significant differences were found between the rating of dental casts and photographs of dental casts, using the Goslon Yardstick. Conclusions Photographs of dental casts provide a consistent, reproducible method for rating dental arch relationships in patients with UCLP at the age of 9 years and provide a reliable alternative to the application of the Goslon Yardstick on dental casts.
ISSN:1055-6656
1545-1569
DOI:10.1597/03-101.1