Impact of Twin Block and Motion Class II Appliances on Hyoid Bone Position - A Retrospective Clinical Study (Hyoid bone)

University of Salamanca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hyoid Bone

Treatments: Device: Impact of Twin Block and Motion above Hyoid bone

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06715774

RG-2024-ortho

Details and patient eligibility

About

Analyse the impact Twin block appliance and Motion on Hyoid Bone

Full description

Patients were selected, divided en two homogenous groups and underwent preoperative and postoperative lateral teleradiograph scans. The datasets were subsequently uploaded into a digital treatment planning software to record the position changes of the hyoid bone at horizontal, vertical, angular, and airway complex level; additionally, the effect of gender, age at onset, treatment time, biotype, and their interactions with the group, have been also statistically evaluated.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 10 and 16 years old, with sketelal class II, a ANB angle ≥4° according to the Steiner cephalometric analysis, with Twin block or Motion appliance

Exclusion criteria

• without previous orthodontic treatment, without systemic disesases and adenotonsillar hypertrophy.