Behbehani Faraj, Hicks E Preston, Beeman Cynthia, Kluemper G Thomas, Rayens Mary K
Faculty of Dentistry, Kuwait University, Developmental and Preventive Sciences, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Angle Orthod. 2006 May;76(3):406-11. doi: 10.1043/0003-3219(2006)076[0406:RVICAB]2.0.CO;2.
The objective of this study is to determine whether (1) Kuwaiti adolescents differ from Caucasian adolescents with respect to their cephalometric values; (2) sex plays a role in the differences between the two groups; and (3) a need exists to develop cephalometric standards for the Kuwaiti population. Standardized cephalometric films were obtained from 36 Kuwaiti females and 32 Kuwaiti males between the ages 11 and 14 years. Only subjects with Class I molar occlusion and a positive overjet of no more than 4 mm were selected. Each subject was age matched with White cephalometric values. Intraexaminer error, paired, and two-sample t-tests were made. The results show that there were significant differences between the Kuwaiti population and the Caucasian population for the majority of the variables tested (P < .01). Sex produced no significant effect on any of the variables studied. The Kuwaiti population has fuller lips, more facial convexity, greater dental protrusion, a more retruded and smaller mandible, and shorter posterior face height than the Caucasian population.
（1）科威特青少年与白种人青少年在头影测量值方面是否存在差异；（2）性别在两组差异中是否起作用；以及（3）是否有必要为科威特人群制定头影测量标准。从36名11至14岁的科威特女性和32名科威特男性中获取了标准化的头影测量片。仅选取了I类磨牙关系且覆盖不超过4mm的受试者。每个受试者在年龄上与白种人头影测量值相匹配。进行了检查者内误差、配对和两样本t检验。结果表明，在大多数测试变量上，科威特人群与白种人群之间存在显著差异（P <.01）。性别对所研究的任何变量均无显著影响。与白种人群相比，科威特人群嘴唇更丰满，面部凸度更大，牙齿前突更明显，下颌后缩且更小，后脸高度更短。
