The Fourth Cervical Vertebra Anterior and Posterior Body Height Projections (Vba) for the Assessment of Pubertal Growth Spurt

被引：3

作者：

Cameriere, Roberto ^{[1
]}

Palacio, Luz Andrea Velandia ^{[2
]}

Nakas, Enita ^{[3
]}

Galic, Ivan ^{[4
]}

Brkic, Hrvoje ^{[5
,6
,7
]}

Govorko, Danijela Kalibovic ^{[8
]}

Jerkovic, Daniel ^{[4
]}

Jara, Liliana ^{[2
]}

Ferrante, Luigi ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Molise, Dept Med & Hlth Sci Vincezo Tiberio, AgEstimat Project, I-86100 Campobasso, Italy

[2] Inst Univ Colegios Colombia UNICOC, Res Ctr, Dent Dept, Bogota 250001, Colombia

[3] Univ Sarajevo, Sch Dent Med, Dept Orthodont, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herceg

[4] Univ Split, Univ Hosp Split, Sch Med, Dept Oral Surg, Split 21000, Croatia

[5] Univ Zagreb, Dept Dent Anthropol, Zagreb 10000, Croatia

[6] Univ Zagreb, Chair Forens Dent, Sch Dent Med, Zagreb 10000, Croatia

[7] Univ Lisbon, Fac Dent Med, P-1649004 Lisbon, Portugal

[8] Univ Split, Univ Hosp Split, Sch Med, Dept Orthodont, Split 21000, Croatia

[9] Polytech Univ Marche, Ctr Epidemiol Biostat & Med Informat Technol, Dept Biomed Sci & Publ Hlth, Via Conca 71, I-60020 Torrette di Ancona, Italy

来源：

APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL | 2023年 / 13卷 / 03期

关键词：

dental age; skeletal age; cervical vertebrae; pubertal growth spurt; segmented regression; dental growth; AgEstimation; AGE ESTIMATION; OPEN APICES; BAYESIAN CALIBRATION; YOUNG ADOLESCENTS; MANDIBULAR GROWTH; PULP/TOOTH RATIO; MATURATION; CHILDREN; MATURITY; RADIOGRAPHS;

D O I：

10.3390/app13031819

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

Featured Application Roberto Cameriere and Ivan Galic equally contributed to this paper. This paper aims to propose a statistical model to assess pubertal growth spurt using the ratio of the anterior height projection to the posterior (Vba) of the fourth cervical vertebra body (C4) on cephalograms and to calculate the residual proportion of skeletal maturation and the time for the pubertal growth spurt to end for a given Vba. A sample of 538 cephalograms from healthy-living children aged between 5 and 15 years was analyzed. A segmented regression model was used to explain the different Vba stages relative to the pubertal growth spurt. In addition, the time to achieve skeletal maturation was evaluated for a given Vba between the beginning (Vba(1)) and the end (Vba(2)) of the pubertal growth spurt. A longitudinal sample of 25 males and 25 females was analyzed to validate the proposed method. The values of Vba corresponding to higher pubertal development rate ranged from Vba(1) = 0.677 (95%CI, 0.644-0.711) to Vba(2) = 0.966 (95%CI, 0.905-1.028) and from Vba(1) = 0.669 (95%CI, 0.645-0.693) to Vba(2) = 1.073 (95%CI, 1.044-1.101) in males and females, respectively. The validation process results showed that our model did not produce any incorrect forecasts. The proposed method estimates the beginning and the end of the pubertal growth spurt together with the residual proportion of skeletal maturation for a given Vba.

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