Lee R S, Daniel F J, Swartz M, Baumrind S, Korn E L
Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop. 1987 May;91(5):395-402. doi: 10.1016/0889-5406(87)90392-1.
A new method to predict mandibular rotation developed by Skieller and co-workers on a sample of 21 implant subjects with extreme growth patterns has been tested against an alternative sample of 25 implant patients with generally similar mean values, but with less extreme facial patterns. The method, which had been highly successful in retrospectively predicting changes in the sample of extreme subjects, was much less successful in predicting individual patterns of mandibular rotation in the new, less extreme sample. The observation of a large difference in the strength of the predictions for these two samples, even though their mean values were quite similar, should serve to increase our awareness of the complexity of the problem of predicting growth patterns in individual cases.
斯基勒及其同事针对21名具有极端生长模式的种植体受试者样本开发了一种预测下颌旋转的新方法，该方法在另一组由25名种植体患者组成的样本中进行了测试，这组患者的均值总体相似，但面部模式没那么极端。该方法在回顾性预测极端受试者样本的变化方面非常成功，但在预测新的、不那么极端的样本中的下颌旋转个体模式时则不太成功。尽管这两个样本的均值相当相似，但对它们预测强度的差异进行观察，应有助于提高我们对预测个体病例生长模式问题复杂性的认识。
