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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

cleft palate dental occlusion Goslon Yardstick malocclusion treatment outcome

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