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- Title
Uvulo-glosso-pharyngeal dimensions in subjects with β-thalassaemia major.
- Authors
Abu Alhaija, Elham S. J.; Al-Wahadni, Ahed M. S.; Al-Omari, Mohammad A. O.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate cephalometrically the uvuloglosso-pharyngeal dimensions in subjects with β-thalassaemia major. The subjects were 15 thalassaemic patients (eight males, seven females) with a mean age of 14.13 ± 1.06 years. The variables measured on the lateral cephalograms were tongue height and length, soft palate length and thickness, superior, middle and inferior pharyngeal airway space, and hyoid bone position. The thalassaemic group was compared with a normal control group matched for sex and age using a t-test. The results showed that thalassaemic patients had a smaller tongue size (length P< 0.05, height P < 0.001), shorter soft palate (P < 0.001), smaller upper (P < 0.001) and middle (P < 0.05) pharyngeal airway spaces, and a shorter vertical pharyngeal length (P < 0.05). The hyoid bone in thalassaemic patients was closer to the mandibular plane (P< 0.001).
- Subjects
THALASSEMIA; CEPHALOMETRY; TONGUE; SOFT palate; HYOID bone; AIRWAY (Anatomy); MANDIBLE
- Publication
European Journal of Orthodontics, 2002, Vol 24, Issue 6, p699
- ISSN
0141-5387
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ejo/24.6.699