Gungor Kahraman, Ozturk Mustafa, Semiz Mustafa, Brooks Sharon Lynn
Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Radiology, Dental Faculty, University of Gazi, Ankara, Turkey.
Coll Antropol. 2006 Dec;30(4):801-5.
Purpose of this study was to investigate the most common position of the mental foramen in a selected Turkish population. The study sample included three hundred and sixty one panoramic radiographs of selected Turkish population taken in Faculty of Dentistry, University of Gazi. The most common position of the mental foramen was between the first premolar and the second premolar (71.5%). The mental foramen was symmetrical in 90.4% of patients. In this study, the difference of the location of the mental foramen in different ethnics groups was discussed. Clinicians and anthropologists should expect to find the position of the mental foramen to be symmetrical and between the first premolar and the second premolar teeth.
本研究的目的是调查特定土耳其人群中颏孔的最常见位置。研究样本包括在加齐大学牙科学院拍摄的361张特定土耳其人群的全景X线片。颏孔最常见的位置在第一前磨牙和第二前磨牙之间(71.5%)。90.4%的患者颏孔是对称的。在本研究中,讨论了不同种族群体中颏孔位置的差异。临床医生和人类学家应该预期会发现颏孔的位置是对称的,且在第一前磨牙和第二前磨牙之间。