Assessment of sagittal jaws relationship in skeletal class I adolescents

الملخص EN

To establish a cephalometric standard for sagittal jaw relationships for Iraqi adolescents in Mo-sul city by using three linear measurements, also to compare &correlated the three methods.

Materials and Methods: Lateral cephalometric radiograph were taken for 120 adolescents (52 boys and 68 girls).

The age range was 12–15 years with a mean of 13.4 years.

Wits appraisal (Ao–Bo), App–Bpp (distance between points A&B projected to the palatal plane), and AF–BF(distance between points A and B pro-jected to the Frankfort Horizontal plane) were measured.

Results: Significant differences were found between boys and girls for Ao–Bo, and App–Bpp measurements.

No significant difference was ob-served for AF–BF between girls and boys.

Conclusions: Among the three measurements taken, the AF–BF distance appeared to be the most dependable one followed by App–Bpp distance.