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Sagittal craniofacial growth evaluated on children dry skulls using V2 and V3 canal openings as references

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between standard cephalometric landmarks and lines and those using ovale, rotundum, greater palatine and infra-orbital foramina as references. Thirty-four children dry skulls, 19 males and 15 females aged 0–6 years, were examined by computed tomography scanning. The classical cephalometric dimensions of skull base were measured from middle sagittal plane crossing over basion, nasion and sella turcica. Those of hard palate (maxilla and palatine bone) were measured from axial plane intersecting posterior nasal spine and anterior nasal spine. The dimensions between ovale and rotundum foramina, rotundum and infra-orbital foramina, greater palatine and infra-orbital foramina were determined by using constructed tomographic planes enclosing these different foramina. Biostatistical analysis using partial correlations showed that the linear variables with nerve canal openings as references are strongly related to length of both the skull base and of the hard palate. The results highlight the importance of the nerve canal openings of skull base and bone facial components in normal or pathologic craniofacial growth investigations.

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  1. Faculty of Dentistry, Strasbourg, France

    J.-Cl. Harnet

  2. Laboratory of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Division of Stomatology, School of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

    T. Lombardi

  3. Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Normal Anatomy, Strasbourg, France

    J.-Ch. Lutz & J.-L. Kahn

  4. Faculty of Medicine, Biostatistics Laboratory and Medical Informatics, Strasbourg, France

    P. Meyer

  5. Hôpital de Hautepierre, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Avenue Molière, 67098, Strasbourg Cedex, France

    J.-Cl. Harnet

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Harnet, JC., Lombardi, T., Lutz, JC. et al. Sagittal craniofacial growth evaluated on children dry skulls using V2 and V3 canal openings as references. Surg Radiol Anat 29, 589–594 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-007-0237-x

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