A new harmony box supplemented with gonial angle and age based on a growing Swiss population.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The scope of the present study was to create a new harmony box by adding two diagnostically and clinically important cephalometric variables, the gonial and interincisal angles, while also considering the effect of sex and age for a growing Swiss population.

Methods

A healthy sample with an overjet and overbite between 2 and 4 mm, and 1.5 and 4.5 mm, respectively, of the Zurich Craniofacial Growth Study was considered. Pairwise correlations between the cephalometric angles were evaluated with the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). Regression models were built for each cephalometric variable serving as the dependent one. The Akaike Information Criterion and the Bayesian Information Criterion were used to structure and select the final multivariable regression model.

SUBMITTER: Lorenz N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12394316 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature