Methods for

Studying Physical Growth

Zari Danielle Torres

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Basic Approach:
01 | Measurement Approaches
02 | Experimental Approaches

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MEASUREMENT APPROACHES:
Acquiring Measurement Data
● Craniometry

● Anthropometry

● Cephalometric Radiology

● Three-Dimensional Imaging
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 Craniometry
based on measurements of skulls in cross-sectional

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Anthropometry
Uses soft tissue points overlying bony landmarks

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Cephalometric
Radiology
combine the advantages of craniometry and anthropometry.

growth studies are done by superimposing

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 Three-
Dimensional
Imaging
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 Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
shows soft tissues more clearly than hard tissues

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Analysis of
Measurement
of Data
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Changes in the rate of growth are much more easily seen in a velocity curve.
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Experimental
Approaches
Vital Staining

Implant Radiography

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Alizarin
Vital Staining
- Injected into an animal and still can be detected after death
- Reacts strongly with calcium mainly at bone calcification thus marks active
growth location

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Tetracycline
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 Radioactive
tracers
● detected by ● gamma- ● used to ● More useful ● utoradiography
the weak emitting detect areas in growth
radioactivity isotope of rapid problems
technetium bone growth 20
 Implant
Radiography
● It provided important new information about
the growth pattern of the jaws.

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Thank you!
Reference

● Contemporary Orthodontics by Profffit

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