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Cephalometric methods have been used to evaluate morphometric measurements of the mandible and quantify sex-related anatomical features; however, most studies to date employ a limited set of location-specific measurements without considering the entire three-dimensional anatomy of the mandible. The aims of this study were to develop statistical shape models (SSMs) of partially edentulous male and female mandibles to evaluate inter-subject morphological variability and secondly to assess the effectiveness of discrete clinical morphometric measurements in prediction of complete three-dimensional mandible geometry. Computed tomography images of forty partially edentulous female and twenty-five male subjects were obtained, and SSM developed using mesh fitting, rigid body registration and principal component analysis. Analysis of female and male SSMs showed that the variation along their first principal components was size-related. Sex-differentiating pure shape variations were found along the first principal component of size-normalised SSM and were observed to be most prominent in the symphysis and posterior ramus regions of the mandible. Seven morphometric measurements were found to characterise female and male shape prediction optimally. The capability to rapidly generate accurate patient-specific shape-predictive models of the mandible may be useful for implant development and pre-operative planning, particularly in the absence of bony structures following trauma or tumour resection.
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Vallabh, R., Zhang, J., Fernandez, J. et al. The morphology of the human mandible: A computational modelling study. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 19, 1187–1202 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-019-01133-5
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