Reliability of a method to conduct upper airway analysis in cone-beam computed tomography

• Main Authors: Karen Regina Siqueira de Souza (Author), Paula Vanessa Pedron Oltramari-Navarro (Author), Ricardo de Lima Navarro (Author), Ana Cláudia de Castro Ferreira Conti (Author), Marcio Rodrigues de Almeida (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The aim of this study was to assess the reliability of a method to measure the following upper airway dimensions: total volume (TV), the nasopharyngeal narrowest areas (NNA), and the oropharyngeal narrowest areas (ONA). The sample consisted of 60 cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans, evaluated...