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Cervical vertebral maturation as a biologic indicator of skeletal maturity
Rodrigo César Santiago * , Luiz Felipe De Miranda Costa , Robert Willer Farinazzo Vitral , Marcelo Reis Fraga , Ana Maria Bolognese , Lucianne Cople Maia
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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 Objective: To identify and review the literature regarding the reliability of cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) staging to predict the pubertal spurt.

 Materials and Methods: 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.

 Results: 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.

 Conclusions: 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.


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Keywords: Skeletal maturation, Cervical vertebrae
     
Type of Study: Research | Subject: Orthodontics
Received: 2012/12/12 | Published: 2012/01/15
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César Santiago R, de Miranda Costa L F, Farinazzo Vitral R W, Reis Fraga M, Bolognese A M, Cople Maia L. Cervical vertebral maturation as a biologic indicator of skeletal maturity. 3 2012; 1 (1 and 1)
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