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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Apr 1987

Associations between the Postural Orientation of Sella–Nasion and Skeletodental Morphology

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Page Range: 99 – 112
DOI: 10.1043/0003-3219(1987)057<0099:ABTPOO>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

The orientation of the sella-nasion line to true vertical in natural head posture is found to be correlated with some measures that describe internal craniofacial morphology.

Copyright: Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists

Contributor Notes

Dr. Showfety is in the private practice of orthodontics in North Carolina, and former Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) School of Dentistry. He holds D.D.S. and M.S. degrees, and a certificate on Orthodontics, from the University of North Carolina

Dr. Vig is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthodontics, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, in Ann Arbor

Dr. Matteson is Associate Professor and Head, Section of Radiology, Department of Oral Diagnosis, at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill

Dr. Phillips is Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill

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