A quantitative approach for measuring crowding in the dental arch: Fourier descriptors

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 716-725

  Lestrel, Pete E ^a,b   Takahashi, Osamu ^b,c   Kanazawa, Eisaku ^c  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b School of Dentistry ^*  (United States)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROWDING; DENTURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STANDARDIZATION; TOOTH ARCH;

EID: 2942596336     PISSN: 08895406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajodo.2003.05.008     Document Type: Article

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