Assessment of Skeletal Age using Hand-Wrist Radiographs Following BJORK System Sample Size - Prospective Study

S Bhuvaneshwari; Shayon Chakravarti; Balaji Manohar; Sana Mohiuddin; L V Soujanaya Nallamilli; Dipak Chaudhari

doi:10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_480_22

Assessment of Skeletal Age using Hand-Wrist Radiographs Following BJORK System Sample Size - Prospective Study

J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2023 Jul;15(Suppl 1):S330-S332. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_480_22. Epub 2023 Jul 5.

Authors

S Bhuvaneshwari¹, Shayon Chakravarti², Balaji Manohar¹, Sana Mohiuddin³, L V Soujanaya Nallamilli⁴, Dipak Chaudhari⁵

Affiliations

¹ Professor, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
² Intern, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
³ Orthodontist, Private Practioner, Buraydah, Qassim, SaudiArabia.
⁴ Orthodontist, Al- Harkan Dental Clinics, Unaizah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ General Dentist, DDS (University of California Los Angeles), BDS (University of Pune), Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

Introduction: The planning of effective orthodontic therapy greatly benefits from an understanding of the skeletal maturation and stage of growth of the patients seeking orthodontic treatment. However, the patient's various craniofacial structures have varying levels of growth potential. The patient is exposed to additional radiation when hand-wrist radiographs are regularly used to forecast growth. As an alternative, cervical vertebrae in the lateral cephalograph have been suggested. When arranging orthodontic treatment for growing children, it is important to take into account the pubertal growth spurt, which is a crucial time in therapy.

Conclusion: Finding out how much growth a patient with skeletal discrepancy would experience during adolescence is one of the key goals of conducting a hand and wrist radiograph.

Keywords: BJORK system; hand–wrist radiographs; skeletal age.