Relationship of Facial Measurement for Determining the Vertical Dimension in Young Adult Saudi Students

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Assistant Professor, Prosthodontic Department, College of Dentistry, Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Lecturer, Removable Prosthodontic Department, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Al- Azhar University.

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There is no specific scientific method for determining the correct edentulous occlusal vertical dimension. In this study, the establishment of the proportion between the ear-eye to chin-nose distance to determine occlusal vertical dimension.
200 dentulous Saudi students participated in this study. The chin-nose and eareye (right & left) distances were measured; the results showed that there is a correlation between these measurements; also this study showed that this facial
measurement may be used to predict chin-nose distance and determining occlusal vertical dimension in edentulous patients of the Saudi population in combination with some other methods, which have proved to be helpful 

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Al-Azhar Dental Journal for Girls
Volume 4, Issue 2
April 2017
Pages 157-160

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