RESEARCH ARTICLE
Nobel Med 2021; 17(3): 166-173

AN ALTERNATIVE TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS ON PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHS OF PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS

Sinan Yılar, Özkan Miloğlu, İsmail Gümüşsoy, Muhammet Enes Naralan, Zeynep Bayramoğlu
ABSTRACT
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the mandibular trabecular bone of patients with scoliosis using fractal analysis (FA), and to compare these patients to a healthy control group.

Material and Method: Six regions of interest (ROIs) were chosen on the mandible. FA was performed using a box-counting method on panoramic radiographs of 105 patients with adolescents’ idiopathic scoliosis, and 105 control subjects.

Results: Fractal dimension (FD) values of the patients with scoliosis (1.2136) were found to be lower than the control subjects (1.2654). The results were statistically significant (p<0.05). Although there was no significant correlation between the FD values of ROI-1, 2, 5 and 6 and the Cobb angle of the patients, there was a correlation between the FD values of ROI-3 and 4 and the Cobb angle.

Conclusion: The FD values of the patients with scoliosis were found to be lower than those in the control group. These findings suggest a promising result for similar research that focuses on the evaluation of bone microstructure on panoramic radiography using the FA method.

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  • Pubmed Style
    Sinan Yılar, Özkan Miloğlu, İsmail Gümüşsoy, Muhammet Enes Naralan, Zeynep Bayramoğlu. [AN ALTERNATIVE TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS ON PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHS OF PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS]. Nobel Med 2021; 17(3): 166-173, English.
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    Sinan Yılar, Özkan Miloğlu, İsmail Gümüşsoy, Muhammet Enes Naralan, Zeynep Bayramoğlu. [AN ALTERNATIVE TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS ON PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHS OF PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS]. www.nobelmedicus.com/en/Article.aspx?m=1716 [Access: Mayıs 24, 2021], English.
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    Sinan Yılar, Özkan Miloğlu, İsmail Gümüşsoy, Muhammet Enes Naralan, Zeynep Bayramoğlu. [AN ALTERNATIVE TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS ON PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHS OF PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS]. Nobel Med 2021; 17(3): 166-173, English.
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    Sinan Yılar, Özkan Miloğlu, İsmail Gümüşsoy, Muhammet Enes Naralan, Zeynep Bayramoğlu. [AN ALTERNATIVE TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS ON PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHS OF PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS]. Nobel Med (2021); 17(3): 166-173, [cited Mayıs 24, 2021], English.
  • Harvard Style
    Sinan Yılar, Özkan Miloğlu, İsmail Gümüşsoy, Muhammet Enes Naralan, Zeynep Bayramoğlu. (2021) [AN ALTERNATIVE TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS ON PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHS OF PATIENTS WITH SCOLIOSIS]. Nobel Med, 17(3): 166-173, English.