Reconsidering “The inappropriateness of conventional cephalometrics”
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The inappropriateness of conventional cephalometrics.
1. Cephalometric conventions today may have little basis in either biology or biometrics. 2. There is no theory of cephalometrics, only conventions which involve landmarks and straight lines only. These fail to capture the curving of form and its changes, exclude proper measures of size for bent structures, and misrepresent growth, portraying it as vector displacement rather than a generalized ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0889-5406
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajodo.2015.12.011