Buyuk S Kutalmış, Genc Esra, Simsek Huseyin, Karaman Ahmet
a Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics , Ordu University , Ordu , Turkey.
b Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry , Ordu University , Ordu , Turkey.
Cranio. 2019 Jul;37(4):223-230. doi: 10.1080/08869634.2017.1420440. Epub 2018 Jan 10.
The purpose of this study was to analyze facial soft tissue thickness and cranial skeletal transverse widths in adolescent subjects with different body mass index (BMI) percentiles.
The 80 subjects were divided into three groups according to BMI percentile: normal-weight, overweight, and obese adolescent subjects. Facial soft tissue linear and cranial skeletal transversal width measurements were performed on lateral and postero-anterior cephalometric radiographs.
Glabella, nasion, pogonion, and gnathion soft tissue thicknesses were significantly different among normal-weight, overweight, and obese subjects ( < 0.05). However, other facial soft tissue thickness parameters were not statistically significantly different among the groups ( > 0.05). Moreover, there were no significant differences in cranial skeletal transversal widths among groups ( > 0.05).
Nasion soft tissue thickness was thicker in overweight subjects; whereas, glabella, pogonion and gnathion soft tissue thickness was thicker in obese subjects. All measured cranial skeletal widths were similar in normal-weight, overweight, and obese subjects.
本研究旨在分析不同体重指数（BMI）百分位数的青少年受试者面部软组织厚度和颅骨横向宽度。
80名受试者根据BMI百分位数分为三组：正常体重、超重和肥胖青少年受试者。在头颅侧位片和后前位片上进行面部软组织线性测量和颅骨横向宽度测量。
正常体重、超重和肥胖受试者之间，眉间、鼻根点、颏前点和颏下点的软组织厚度存在显著差异（P<0.05）。然而，其他面部软组织厚度参数在各组之间无统计学显著差异（P>0.05）。此外，各组颅骨横向宽度无显著差异（P>0.05）。
超重受试者鼻根点软组织厚度较厚；而肥胖受试者眉间、颏前点和颏下点软组织厚度较厚。正常体重、超重和肥胖受试者所有测量的颅骨宽度相似。
