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- Title
A COMPARITIVE EVALUATION OF DIGITAL AND MANUAL METHOD FOR DENTAL CAST ANALYSIS.
- Authors
Gupta, Shilpa; Kahlon, Sukhdeep Singh; Dhingra, Parvinder Singh; Kaur, Sandeep; Kaur, Harleen; Dhaliwal, Bikramjeet
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Arch length analysis has been used by majority of workers for quantifying dental crowding from which nance and lundstrom analysis are most commonly used methods. Advances in diagnostic procedures by the advent of digital methods, there occurs a need to evaluate the reliability, validity and reproducibility of new and the old methods. Therefore, the present study compares the manual and digital methods for nance and lundstrom analysis. Material And Method: Thirty orthodontic patients with bilateral class II malocclusion were taken as subjects for the study. Measurements were taken for space available, space required and discrepancy for each of them by the main observer and was re-evaluated by two subsequent observers for ten randomly selected subjects. Statistics were applied. Results: The differences between the space required, space available and discrepancy for manual and digital methods of nance and lundstrom analysis respectively were not significant whereas the difference for space required measured by manual and digital method for lundstrom analysis was statistically significant and that for space available was highly significant. A significant correlation was reported between the observers in all the values except in space available for manual and digital method of nanceanalysis. Conclusion: Both, the manual and digital methods of lundstrom and nance analysis reported an equal validation and any of them can be used.
- Subjects
DENTAL casting; DENTAL care; ORAL hygiene
- Publication
Indian Journal of Comprehensive Dental Care (IJCDC), 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1, p876
- ISSN
2231-6973
- Publication type
Article