EVALUATION OF TOOTH SIZE DISCREPANCY IN DIFFERENT MALOCCLUSION GROUPS

Authors

  • Iffat Batool
  • Assad Abbas
  • S. Ausaf Ali Rizvi
  • Irum Abbas

Abstract

Background: Orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning requires the patient's thorough history,
extra and intra oral examination, analysis of diagnostic records comprising of orthodontic photographs,
necessary radiographs and properly trimmed study casts. Tooth-size is the sum of mesio distal widths of
the maxillary and mandibular teeth. For ideal occlusion, teeth in both arches should be proportional in
size. If larger teeth in one jaw are occluded with smaller teeth in the other jaw, ideal occlusion is not
achieved. Tooth size analysis was presented by Bolton in 1958. The ratio for anterior segment was
derived to be 77.2±0.22% and 91.3±0.26% for the whole arch. Methods: A quantitative study was
carried out at the Armed Forces Institute of Dentistry (AFID), Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a tertiary care
facility. Cross sectional data was gathered from the study casts of patients undergoing orthodontic
treatment at AFID, after obtaining informed written consent from them. 135 out of 200 study casts were
filtered based upon the inclusion and exclusion criteria. ANB angle and witt's appraisal were traced on
corresponding lateral cephalograms. The mesio distal widths of all maxillary and mandibular teeth from
right first molar to left first molar were calibrated with the use of a manual caliper. The readings were
then used to compute the anterior and total Bolton ratios. Results: Significantly higher mean anterior
tooth ratios were found for Class II (p<0.01) patients. All other ratios were within close range of
Bolton's norms. Conclusions: Skeletal Class II patients showed a tendency towards higher mesiodistal
widths of teeth in the mandibular anterior region.
Keywords: Interarch tooth size discrepancy, Bolton's norms, Skeletal Class I, II and III

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Published

2008-12-01

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Batool, I., Abbas, A., Rizvi, S. A. A., & Abbas, I. (2008). EVALUATION OF TOOTH SIZE DISCREPANCY IN DIFFERENT MALOCCLUSION GROUPS. Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad, 20(4), 51–54. Retrieved from https://www.jamc.ayubmed.edu.pk/jamc/index.php/jamc/article/view/3843

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Vol. 20 No. 4 (2008): JOURNAL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE, ABBOTTABAD

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