Mohammadi Amir, Moslemzadeh Seyed Hossein
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
J Dent Res Dent Clin Dent Prospects. 2011 Fall;5(4):111-8. doi: 10.5681/joddd.2011.026. Epub 2011 Dec 19.
Diverse gauges have been used to measure and determine bracket height for correct bracket positioning. The aim of the present study was to determine and compare bracket positioning accuracy by using height bracket positioning gauge (HBPG) and Boone gauge (BG).
Nineteen sets of stone models were prepared from one patient. One set was employed to de-termine the ideal position of brackets, and the remaining nine pairs of sets for bracket placement by nine clinicians usingHBPG and BG. Teeth were then sectioned from the stone models and placed inside acrylic molds; photographs were takenand imported to a computer. In two groups, the position of each bonded bracket was compared in three aspects of vertical, mesiodistal and angular with the ideal position of every bracket. Finally, bracket positioning errors were measured.
Mann-Whitney U test demonstrated significant differences in the means ofvertical error between the HBPG group and BG groups (P<0.001), while there were no significant differences between mesiodistal and angular errors. Facto-rial ANOVA revealed that gauge and tooth type, and the position of tooth on the right and left side of the mouth play a ma-jor role in the rate of vertical error.
Vertical accuracy of bracket positioning by the use of HBPG is more than that by BG. However, there is no difference between two gauges in relation to the mesiodistal and angular errors.
为实现正确的托槽定位,人们使用了多种规格的工具来测量和确定托槽高度。本研究的目的是使用高度托槽定位规(HBPG)和布恩规(BG)来确定并比较托槽定位的准确性。
从一名患者制备了19套石膏模型。其中一套用于确定托槽的理想位置,其余9对模型由9名临床医生分别使用HBPG和BG进行托槽放置。然后从石膏模型上切下牙齿并放入丙烯酸模具中;拍摄照片并导入计算机。在两组中,将每个粘结托槽的位置在垂直、近远中和角度三个方面与每个托槽的理想位置进行比较。最后,测量托槽定位误差。
曼-惠特尼U检验显示HBPG组和BG组在垂直误差均值上存在显著差异(P<0.001),而在近远中和角度误差方面无显著差异。析因方差分析表明,量具和牙齿类型以及牙齿在口腔左右侧的位置在垂直误差率中起主要作用。
使用HBPG进行托槽定位的垂直准确性高于BG。然而,在近远中和角度误差方面,两种量具之间没有差异。