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  • Title: A new yardstick for rating dental arch relationship in patients with complete bilateral cleft lip and palate.
    Author: Ozawa TO, Shaw WC, Katsaros C, Kuijpers-Jagtman AM, Hagberg C, Rønning E, Semb G.
    Journal: Cleft Palate Craniofac J; 2011 Mar; 48(2):167-72. PubMed ID: 20500054.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To develop yardsticks for assessment of dental arch relationship in young individuals with repaired complete bilateral cleft lip and palate appropriate to different stages of dental development. PARTICIPANTS: Eleven cleft team orthodontists from five countries worked on the projects for 4 days. A total of 776 sets of standardized plaster models from 411 patients with operated complete bilateral cleft lip and palate were available for the exercise. STATISTICS: The interexaminer reliability was calculated using weighted kappa statistics. RESULTS: The interrater weighted kappa scores were between .74 and .92, which is in the "good" to "very good" categories. CONCLUSIONS: Three bilateral cleft lip and palate yardsticks for different developmental stages of the dentition were made: one for the deciduous dentition (6-year-olds' yardstick), one for early mixed dentition (9-year-olds' yardstick), and one for early permanent dentition (12-year-olds' yardstick).
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