A retrospective study of panoramic radiographs for zygomatic air cell defect in children

Zygomatic air cell defect - a brief review

“…Studies involving zygomatic air cell defect have been conducted using different imaging modalities over the years also taking into consideration occurrence (unilateral/bilateral) and gender distribution. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] (Table1)…”

“…However most of the researchers who evaluated the ZACD using the panoramic radiograph have found prevalence rates lower than 5%. [5,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][22][23][24]27] only one study conducted by Shokri et al in 2013 using panoramic radiography stated a prevalence rate of 6.2%. [12].…”

“…[26] Gender variation in the occurrence of ZACD Most of the studies have reported of a higher rate of occurrence in the female study subjects when compared to male study, however the difference have not been statistically significant in many of these studies. [5,12,13,15,16,19,20,[22][23][24]26] Some studies have reported no gender predilection between male and female study subjects. [14,17,18,25] However very few studies have shown a higher male predilection.…”

“…Although studies on ZACD have been conducted at many countries most of the published literature originates from population based studies from Iran [4,12,24,25], Turkey [16,17,18,19,20 ] India [22,23,27], USA [5,13,14], Brazil [3,21], Germany [15]. the prevalence rates of ZACD was observed to more in studies conducted on the Iranian, Turkish and American population when compared to Indian population, however it is to be noted that most of the recent studies on the later population has been conducted with CBCT therefore more prevalence was observed owing to better visualization of the ZACD.…”

Neumatización Del Tubérculo Articular Y Discontinuidad De La Fosa Mandibular Del Temporal: Estudio Mediante Tomografía Computarizada

“…1,8,12 PAT can be observed in orthopantomography, which was considered the initial method for examining AT due to its low cost and low radiation dose compared with tomographic imaging. 1,2,4,11,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] However, the latter is not likely to overlap with anatomical structures as in conventional imaging, and they exceed the diagnostic accuracy in the evaluation of air spaces in the temporal bone. 3,6,5,10,25,26 The roof of the temporal mandibular fossa (MF) is a thin sheet of bone separating the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) from the middle cranial fossa, with thickness ranging from 0.2 to 4.0 mm.…”