ANÁLISE DA DENSIDADE ÓPTICA DA SUTURA PALATINA MEDIANA APÓS A EXPANSÃO RÁPIDA DA MAXILA ASSISTIDA CIRURGICAMENTE

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Macedo, Mônica Moraes Cunha
• Orientador(a): Sannomiya, Eduardo Kazuo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: PÓS GRADUAÇÃO EM ORTODONTIA
• Departamento: Ortodontia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Odontologia - Teses e Dissertações; Palato; maxila-cirurgia; ortodontia; odontologia
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA::ORTODONTIA
• Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1223

The Surgical Assisted Maxilla Expansion (SARME) is an orthodonticsurgical resource used in the treatments of malocclusions with transversal deficiency of the maxilla in adult pacients that present the consolidation of the medium palate suture. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the optical densities of the medium palate suture before the SARME (phase I), after the closing of the expansor screw (phase II), after 3 months of the closing of the expansor screw (phase III), and after 6 months of the surgical procedure. The sample for this study was constituted of 64 occlusal radiographies of 16 patients, aged between 18 and 40 years old, being 6 male patients and 10 female patients, who needed to be submitted to the Surgical Assisted Maxilla Expansion (SARME) and had atresia of the maxilla superior to 5 mm. The occlusal radiographies and the digitalized images of this study were obtained. Two areas of interest were marked on the digitalized images, one between the superior central incisives and another one after the end of the expansor screw. Then, there were made some readings of the optical densities using the Image Tool for Windows program by means of a Histogram. After making a statistics analysis of the values of the optical density of the regions analysed by the Analysis of Variations (ANOVA), and multiple comparisons of Bonferroni (a complement of ANOVA), we can conclude that the optical density in the region of the medium palate suture in the 4 phases that were studied presented a great variation, compatible with the opening of the referred suture and posterior bone new formation in the post surgical period; it was observed a decreasing value to the optical densities after the closing of the expansor screw in the A and B regions; it was also observed that, three months after the closing of the expansor screw, the optical densities increased in A and B regions. This fact suggested a bone new formation in the region of the medium palate suture; it was observed that, six months after the surgical procedure, the optical densities increased in relation to the previous phase. In the A region, it was observed that the values of the optical densities did not retake the pre-treatment values, that is, before the Surgical Maxilla Expansion (SARME). But the values of the average optical densities of the B region retook their initial values, before the SARME. The statistic analysis revealed that, six months after the surgical procedure, there was a statistically relevant difference in the evaluation of region A , when comparing the phases among themselves. However, when evaluating region B , there was no statistically relevant difference when we compared phases I and IV.