Pharyngeal airway space cephalometric evaluation in transverse maxillary deficient patients after SARME

• Main Authors: Marcela Silva de Castro Candido (Author), Marcelo Silva Monnazzi (Author), Marisa Aparecida Cabrini Gabrielli (Author), Rubens Spin-Neto (Author), Valfrido Antonio Pereira-Filho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aim: To evaluate prospectively the upper airway of 16 patients submitted to surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion. Methods: Volumetric tomography acquisitions were done preoperatively (T1) and after six months postoperatively (T2), the slices were obtained from the hard palate to the third c...