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Zur Validität von Asymmetriegraden computerunterstützter Analysen der Fernröntgenfrontalaufnahme

On the efficacy of asymmetry indices in computer aided analysis of posteroanterior cephalograms

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Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war es, die diagnostische Aussagekraft von Symmetriegraden einer speziell adaptierten computergestützten mandibuläen Symmetriegradanalyse (CMS) zu bewerten. Durch die CMS von Fernröntgenfrontalbildserien mit experimentell stimulierten Rotationen und Kippungen der Modellunterkiefer (einem ideal symmetrischen, einem extrem asymmetrischen) konnten signifikante Verzerrungen der Symmetriegrade quantitativ dargestellt werden. Es zeigte sich, daß die prozentuale Symmetriegradbestimmung bei skelettaler Asymmetrie von diagnostischem Wert ist. Computergestützte Differentianely see zwischen funktionellen und skelettalen Asymmetriekomponenten erwiesen sich bei dem zweidimensionalen Abbildungssystem der Fernröntgenfrontalaufnahme als nicht valide. Diese Aussage kann als verallgemeinerungsfähig für sämtliche ausschließlich FRF-bezogenen Asymmetrieindizes gelten.

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The aim of the study presented here was to evaluate the efficacy of symmetry indices when using a specially adapted computer aided mandibular analysis of symmetry degree (CMS). By means of using a series of anteroposterior cephalograms with experimentally simulated rotations and tippings of the two mandibles under study (one ideal symmetric, one severe asymmetric), it proved possible to quantify significant distractions in the degree of symmetry. It was possible to demonstrate that the determination of percentual symmetry degree is a helpful diagnostic tool in the case of skeletal mandibular asymmetry. In the two-dimensional projections of posteroanterior cephalograms, however, computer aided differential analysis of the functional and skeletal components of asymmetry were not shown to be valid. This finding can thus be generally applied to all exclusively posteroanterior cephalogram related symmetry indices.

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Ehmer, U., Wegener, A. Zur Validität von Asymmetriegraden computerunterstützter Analysen der Fernröntgenfrontalaufnahme. Fortschritte der Kieferorthopädie 54, 134–142 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02409023

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