Comparison of Ricketts analysis and Downs-Northwestern analysis for the evaluation of obstructive sleep apnea cephalograms

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 259-260

  Higurashi, Naoki ^a,c   Kikuchi, Makoto ^a   Miyazaki, Soichiro ^b   Itasaka, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a Cosmos Orthodontic Office ^*  (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dentofacial skeletal pattern; Dolico facial pattern; Downs Northwestern analysis; Japanese; Lateral cephalogram; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; Ricketts analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; MALE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

ADULT; CEPHALOMETRY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 0034979577     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00850.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Facial patterns of obstructive sleep apnea patients using Ricketts' method
2. Obstructive sleep apneic patients have craniomandibular abnormalities