RAJIV GANDHI UNIVESITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
ANNEXURE-II
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECTS FOR DISSERTATION

1.

NAME OF THE CANDIDATE

AND ADDRESS
(IN BLOCK LETTERS)

DR. AMIT PRAKASH

POST GRADUATE STUDENT,
DEPARTMENT OF ORTHODONTICS
AND DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS
KLES INSTITUTE OF DENTAL
SCIENCES,# 20, YESHWANTPUR
SUBURB, II STAGE, TUMKUR ROAD,
BANGALORE 560 022

2.

NAME OF THE INSTITUTION

KLES INSTITUTE OF DENTAL

SCIENCES, BANGALORE 560 022

3.

COURSE OF THE STUDY

AND SUBJECT

MASTER OF DENTAL SURGERY IN

ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIAL
ORTHOPEDICS

4.

DATE OF ADMISSION TO
COURSE

1ST JUNE 2007

5.

TITLE OF THE TOPIC

COMPARISON BETWEEN
CONDYLAR CHARACTERISTICS ,
FACIAL MORPHOLOGY AND
SYMPHYSEAL WIDTH IN CLASS II
PREADOLESCENT PATIENTS- A
CEPHALOMETRIC STUDY

BRIEF RESUME OF INTENDED WORK:

NEED FOR STUDY:_
In Class II patients with mandibular deficiency or maxillary excess , hyperdivergent or
hypodivergent jaw bases condylar characteristics , facial morphology and symphseal width
varies.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
1.Gail Burke, Paul Major, Kenneth Glover et al (1998) conducted a study to know the
correlations between condylar characteristics and facial morphology in class II
preadolescent patients. The sample consisted of 136 patients displaying a class II
malocclusion , a vertical or horizontal skeletal growth tendency , and ranging in age
between 10 years 0 months and 12 years 6 months for males and 9 years 0 months and 11
years 6 months for females .
Two groups were established : the vertical group had 68 patients , 36 males and 32 females ,
( average pretreatment age , 11 years 0 months) ; the horizontal group also had 68 patients ,
29 males and 39 females , their average pretreatment age was 10 years 9 months .
The central cut of axially corrected lateral tomograms of the left and right
temporomandibular joints for each group was randomized , blinded and traced for
condylar/fossa measurements including : anterior ,superior and posterior joint space;
condylar head and posterior condylar ramus inclination; condylar neck width ; and condylar
shape and condylar surface area.
A logistic discriminant analysis with significance values set up at p< 0.05 was used to
determine the most reliable condylar characteristics to predict facial morphology . A cluster
analysis was completed on the significant variables to form three clusters . Numeric ranges
separating these clusters were then calculated.
Chi-square test measures of association were computed for significant variables and tested
for associations between facial morphologic characteristics.
Condylar head inclination and superior joint space proved to be significantly correlated to
facial morphology .
Patients with vertical facial morphologic characteristics displayed decreased superior joint
spaces and anteriorly angled condyles were significantly related to facial morphology. No
significant correlations between the other condylar characteristics and facial morphology
were determined.
2.Todd Aki, Ram S. Nanda, Frans Currier et al (1994) conducted a study to assess the
symphysis morphology . A mandible with an anterior growth direction was associated with
small height , large depth , small ratio , and large angle of the symphysis . Cross sectional
data included lateral cephalometric radiographs of 115 adults ( 58 women , 57 men) with the
longitudinal sample a subset of 62 subjects ( 30 females , 32 males) at four age group.
Symphysis dimensions continued to change until adulthood with male subjects having a
greater and later occurring change compared with female subjects.