Morphometric analysis of the skull base and palatal regions for gender identification using CBCT: a retrospective study

Autor: Asmaa Uthman, Hesham Marei, Walid Elsayed, Sura F. Al-Bayati, Hawraa Shams Aldeen, Shishir Shetty, Musab Hamed Saeed, Natheer H. Al-Rawi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: PeerJ, Vol 12, p e18127 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18127
Popis: Objectives The objectives of this study were to evaluate the accuracy of morphometry of skull base and palate in gender discrimination using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning and to assess the accuracy of the results among a sample of the Arab population Materials & Methods Using CBCT scans, a cross-sectional analysis was conducted on 142 consented patients who underwent various dental procedures at the University Dental Hospital, Sharjah (UDHS). Of these patients, 70 were females and 72 were males, with respective means of 38.5 and 36.2 years. Eleven parameters related to skull base and palatal region were measured on the CBCT scans by two expert radiologists followed by statistical analysis. Results There was significant gender-based difference in the mean palatal width (PW) (p = 0.001), mean palatal height (PH) (p = 0.005). Among other skull base region parameters that were significant in term of gender-based difference like; the clivus length (CL) (p
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