Utomi IL
A cephalometric study of antero-posterior skeletal jaw relationship in Nigerian Hausa-Fulani children. [Journal Article]
West Afr J Med 2004 Apr-Jun; 23(2):119-22.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the antero-posterior skeletal jaw relationship in Hausa-Fulani children in Nigeria.
SETTING: This study was carried out in 1998 at the Maxillo-facial unit of the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: 100 subjects aged 11-13 years of Hausa-Fulani ancestry with no previous orthodontic treatment were selected for the study. Lateral cephalometric radiographs were traced and analysed to produce values for SNA, SNB and ANB.
RESULTS: The mean SNA was 82.4 degrees, mean SNB 803 degrees and mean ANB 2.1degrees The normal range of ANB values was 0.5 degrees-4 degrees
CONCLUSION: The values obtained differ from those of other population groups and should be used as guidelines in the orthodontic treatment of the ethnic group studied.
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