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Evaluation and Comparison of Intermaxillary Tooth Size Discrepancy among Class I, Class II Division 1, and Class III
A Lakshmi Prasanna1, V Venkatramana2, A Srikanth Aryasri3
1Reader, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Panineeya institute of Dental sciences and Hospital, Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Aim:
The aim of the present study was to evaluation and comparison of intermaxillary tooth size discrepancy among Class I, Class II division 1, and Class III subjects using Bolton's analysis.
Materials And Methods:
The pre-treatment casts were selected from the records of patients attending the Department of Orthodontics of Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Chennai. The sample consists of 180 pre-treatment casts with both sexes evenly distributed with 60 casts in each type of malocclusion, i.e., Class I, Class II div 1, and Class III malocclusion. The sample was selected according to angles classification. All patients were Indian nationals, between the age group of 12 to 20 years and Bolton's analysis done on all the casts.
Results:
Statistically no significant difference in all types of malocclusion except anterior Bolton's discrepancy in Class III.
Conclusion:
Mean Bolton's anterior ratio for angles Class III subjects was significantly greater than for Class I and Class II subjects. When Bolton's overall ratio was compared there was no statistically significant difference among Class I, Class II div 1, and Class III malocclusions.
