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Article: Study data from S. Murata and co-authors update knowledge of orthodontics.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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"The aim of this investigation was to assess average Class III craniofacial growth in Japanese males and females, using cross-sectional data from infancy to adulthood. Growth was analysed using the centroid method," researchers in Toyohashi, Japan report (see also Orthodontics).
"Centroid G was geometrically calculated from the triangle Delta abc, which comprised the palatal, articulare-gnathion (Ar-Gn), and A-B planes. Lateral cephalograms were obtained of 323 Japanese males and 611 females aged 2 years or older but under 25 years of age. Each dataset was divided into 2 year intervals according to age and categorized into 10 developmental stages. One-way ...