Cephalometric changes in acromegaly
Morăraşu, C.; Burlui, V.; Zbranca, E.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 101(1-2): 120-124
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 10756739 Document Number: 475815
Acromegaly represents the endocrine disease which includes the somatic and metabolic disorders secondly resulting to the augmentation of the Growth Hormone secretion after the growth cartilages closing (in adult). In this case we can find very important troubles which characterize all the specific elements of the stomatognathic system. The cranio-facial skeleton has a specific configuration, the mandible is developed in excess and the relationships between the maxilla, the mandible and the skull are strongly modified. These and the structural bony troubles, the bony asymmetries involve periodontal, muscular and articular disturbances. In this study we want to describe the craniofacial cephalometric qualitative and quantitative disorders and to emphasize their implications in the onset and the evolution of the stomatognathic system dysfunctional syndrome.