Development Prediction of Sagittal Intermaxillary Relations in Patients with Complete Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate during Puberty

Abstract

The main objective was to find a predictive model for the development of the jaw in patients with the most frequent facial cleft malformation, i.e. complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLPc) by means of multivariate methods.

Keywords

• X-ray cephalometry
• longitudinal study
• complete unilateral cleft lip and palate
• jaw relations
• puberty
• multiple regression
• regression partitioning tree