Skeletal growth in class II malocclusion from childhood to adolescence: does the profile straighten?

Taloumtzi, Matoula; Padashi-Fard, Melisa; Pandis, Nikolaos; Fleming, Padhraig S (2020). Skeletal growth in class II malocclusion from childhood to adolescence: does the profile straighten? Progress in orthodontics, 21(1), p. 13. Springer 10.1186/s40510-020-00313-9

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BACKGROUND

There is relatively little appreciation of the changes in maxillary-mandibular relationships occurring during adolescence among subjects with normal and increased overjet. The aim of this study was to assess differences in changes in maxillo-mandibular relationships during the adolescent growth period based on the presence of a normal (< 4 mm) or increased (> 4 mm) overjet in childhood. Our hypothesis was that there is no difference in the change of the A point, nasion, B point (ANB) angle during growth between these two overjet groups. Lateral cephalograms were obtained from 65 subjects taken from the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation (AAOF) Craniofacial Growth Legacy Collections Project. Cephalograms were obtained at ages 7-10 (T0) and 14-17 (T1) with allocation into two groups based on baseline overjet (> 4 mm: group 1, 2-4 mm: group 2). Random effects linear regression was used to account for multiple within -patient measurements with dependent variables including antero-posterior skeletal pattern (based on sella, nasion, A point (SNA); sella, nasion, B point (SNB); and ANB angles).

RESULTS

We included a similar number of males (n = 34; 52.3%) and females (n = 31; 47.7%). The mean ANB was higher at baseline in group 1 (5.42, SD 2.16°) than in group 2 (3.08, SD 1.91°). The hypothesis was rejected as the ANB angle reduced by 1.92° more in the larger overjet group with the association being statistically significant after accounting for age and gender (P < 0.001; 95% CI 1.06 to 2.77). No significant gender-related effect (P = 0.624; 95% CI - 0.637 to 1.07) was observed overall. However, there was no significant increase in SNA angle in the > 4 mm overjet group compared to the 2-4 mm group (0.857°, P = 0.271; 95% CI - 0.669 to 2.383). The SNB angle increased by 1.15° more in the higher overjet group but there was only weak evidence of an association (P = 0.086; 95% CI - 2.464 to 0.164).

CONCLUSIONS

A slight straightening of the facial profile was observed in both groups with a statistically significant greater reduction in ANB arising in the group with larger baseline overjet. This translated into a marginal reduction in the overjet in this group.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Orthodontics

UniBE Contributor:

Pandis, Nikolaos

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2196-1042

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Renate Imhof-Etter

Date Deposited:

02 Jun 2020 17:01

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1186/s40510-020-00313-9

PubMed ID:

32419086

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Adolescent growth Class II Overjet Profile

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.144224

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/144224

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