Morfología craneofacial y su relación con la forma y ancho del arco dentario maxilar en estudiantes entre 13 y 16 años de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

Was performed transversal descriptive study among students from ninth, tenth basic education and high school first in order to determine the relationship between the index head and face with the shape and width of the upper dental arch permanent. The study group consisted of 2880 students, of which we selected a random sample of 240 subjects not random, 120 female and 120 male. Clinical examination was performed by selected students applied direct measurements. With clinical examination determined the type of dentition present form of the dental arches and transverse relationships interarch whereas with direct measurements are analyzed cranial and facial morphology by earning their indices and measures of upper dental arch transverse. The results were processed using the data package Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) to relate the variables set, being 55.4% of the subjects studied had brachycephalic skulls, faces mesoprosopas 42.1%, 63.3% forms ovoid arch finally wide arch 74.1% for males and 41.7% for narrow arch female, with a degree of statistical significance for the results of α = 0.05. The values were compared with studies conducted in other regions of South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, because in our country there are no studies of this type. The results of some of these other studies are consistent and differed from those obtained from the sample of students of the Austro of Ecuadorian