Jadhav Madhura, Bhosale Veera, Patil Amol, Shinde Siddharth
Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India.
Folia Med (Plovdiv). 2020 Sep 30;62(3):572-577. doi: 10.3897/folmed.62.e48930.
After a century of controversies, we are still not certain on the relationship between airway volume and facial morphology.
To measure nasopharyngeal airway volume and compare it among different skeletal patterns.
Forty five CBCT scans of patients between sixteen to twenty five years were used in the study. The nasopharyngeal airway was divided into upper, middle and lower segments. CBCT images were grouped into skeletal class I, class II and class III.
There was highly significant difference in upper (p=0.001) and middle pharyngeal airway volume (p<0.001) among 3 skeletal groups. Lower pharyngeal airway volume was also statistically significant (p=0.051) among 3 groups. Total pharyngeal airway volume did not show any significant correlation.
Nasopharyngeal airway volume seems to play a role in different skeletal patterns.
经过一个世纪的争论，我们仍不确定气道容积与面部形态之间的关系。
测量鼻咽气道容积并比较不同骨骼类型之间的差异。
本研究使用了45例年龄在16至25岁之间患者的CBCT扫描图像。将鼻咽气道分为上、中、下三段。CBCT图像被分为骨骼I类、II类和III类。
3种骨骼类型在上段（p = 0.001）和中段咽气道容积（p < 0.001）上存在高度显著差异。3组之间下段咽气道容积也具有统计学意义（p = 0.051）。总咽气道容积未显示出任何显著相关性。
鼻咽气道容积似乎在不同骨骼类型中发挥作用。
