Establishment of the mid-sagittal reference plane for three-dimensional assessment of facial asymmetry: a systematic review : Establishment of the mid-sagittal reference plane: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To systematically review the literature for mid-sagittal plane establishment approaches to identify the most effective method for constructing the mid-sagittal plane for the evaluation of facial asymmetry.

Materials and methods

Six electronic databases (PubMed, Medline (via Ovid), EMBASE (via Ovid), Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Scopus) and grey literature were searched for the studies that computed the mid-sagittal reference plane three-dimensionally, using a combination of MeSH terms and keywords. The methodological quality and the level of evidence for the included studies were analyzed using QUADAS-2 and GRADE, respectively.

Results

The preliminary search yielded 6746 records, of which 42 articles that met the predefined inclusion criteria were i

SUBMITTER: Ajmera DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10995046 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature