en ارتودنسی Orthodontics پژوهشي Research <p> <strong>Objective:</strong> To identify and review the literature regarding the reliability of cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) staging to predict the pubertal spurt. </p><p> <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> The selection criteria included cross-sectional and longitudinal descriptive studies in humans that evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively the accuracy and reproducibility of the CVM method on lateral cephalometric radiographs, as well as the correlation with a standard method established by hand-wrist radiographs. </p><p> <strong>Results:</strong> The searches retrieved 343 unique citations. Twenty-three studies met the inclusion criteria. Six articles had moderate to high scores, while 17 of 23 had low scores. Analysis also showed a moderate to high statistically significant correlation between CVM and hand-wrist maturation methods. There was a moderate to high reproducibility of the CVM method, and only one specific study investigated the accuracy of the CVM index in detecting peak pubertal growth. </p><p> <strong>Conclusions</strong>: This systematic review has shown that the studies on CVM method for radiographic assessment of skeletal maturation stages suffer from serious methodological failures. Better-designed studies with adequate accuracy, reproducibility, and correlation analysis, including studies with appropriate sensitivity-specificity analysis, should be performed. </p><hr><p></p><p> <strong>Source: </strong>Angle Orthodontists </p><p><a href="http://www.angle.org/doi/abs/10.2319/103111-673.1" target="_blank"><font color="#0033ff"> Full Text</font></a></p> Skeletal maturation, Cervical vertebrae 0 0 http://idai.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-32-799&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Rodrigo César Santiago rodrigo_cesar_santiago@hotmail.com 10031947532846003509 10031947532846003509 Yes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Luiz Felipe de Miranda Costa 10031947532846003510 10031947532846003510 No Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Robert Willer Farinazzo Vitral 10031947532846003511 10031947532846003511 No Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Marcelo Reis Fraga 10031947532846003512 10031947532846003512 No Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Ana Maria Bolognese 10031947532846003513 10031947532846003513 No Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lucianne Cople Maia 10031947532846003514 10031947532846003514 No Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil