Tomographic assessment of palatal suture opening pattern and pterygopalatine suture disarticulation in the axial plane after midfacial skeletal expansion

• Main Authors: Ozge Colak (Author), Ney Alberto Paredes (Author), Islam Elkenawy (Author), Martha Torres (Author), Joseph Bui (Author), Sara Jahangiri (Author), Won Moon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective The purpose of this study was to assess the palatal suture opening and the pterygopalatine suture disarticulation pattern in the tomographic axial plane after treatment with midfacial skeletal expander (MSE). Materials and methods Pre- and post-expansion CBCT records of 50 subject...