Do gender and torus mandibularis affect mandibular cortical index A cross-sectional study.docVIP

Head Face Medicine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Do gender and torus mandibularis affect mandibular cortical index? A cross-sectional study Serdar Uysal*1, Berna L ?a??rankaya2 and Müjgan Güng?r Hatipo?lu3 Address: 1Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey, 2Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey and 3Dumlupinar University Research and Training Hospital, Dental Clinic, Kutahya, Turkey Email: Serdar Uysal* - suysal@.tr; Berna L ?a??rankaya - lbartvinli@; Müjgan Güng?r Hatipo?lu - mujgan121@ * Corresponding author Published: 30 October 2007 Received: 15 December 2006 Accepted: 30 October 2007 Head Face Medicine 2007, 3:37 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-3-37 This article is available from: /content/3/1/37 ? 2007 Uysal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The interactions between torus and several factors such as age, gender, and dental status have not been studied comprehensively. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of gender on the mandibular cortical index (MCI) and to investigate a possible association between torus mandibularis (TM) and MCI. Methods: The study consisted of 189 consecutive patients referred to Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology of Hacettepe University within 30 workdays. Patients who did not have systemic disorders affecting bone density were included; and the age, gender, dental status and existing TM of the patients were recorded. Morphology of the mandibular inferior cortex was determined according to Klemittis classification on panoramic radiographs. Results