Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the short-term effects on the circummaxillary sutures induced by microimplant-assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) in skeletally mature patients.
Methods: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of preexpansion (T0) and postexpansion (T1) of 23 patients (mean age, 20.9 ± 3.65 years) treated with MARPE were evaluated. The T0 and T1 CBCT images were reoriented and superimposed on the basis of the anterior cranial base, using OnDemand3D software (Cybermed, Seoul, Korea). Then, width changes of 9 circummaxillary sutures (frontonasal, frontomaxillary, frontozygomatic, nasomaxillary, zygomaticomaxillary, intermaxillary, midpalatal, zygomaticotemporal, and pterygopalatine sutures) were measured on 1 section of each patient's T0 and T1 CBCT images. In addition, correlation coefficients between changes in the midpalatal sutures, the amount of appliance activation, age, and the changes in other circummaxillary sutural widths were also calculated.
Results: Statistically significant (P <0.05) width increases were found in all 9 circummaxillary sutures. The changes in midpalatal suture at the maxillary central incisor level positively correlated with the intermaxillary sutures at the anterior nasal spine level, midpalatal sutures at the posterior nasal spine level, and frontomaxillary sutures (P <0.05). In addition, the changes in the midpalatal sutures at the posterior nasal spine level also positively correlated with the changes in the intermaxillary sutures at the anterior nasal spine level, frontomaxillary sutures, and medial pterygopalatine sutures (P <0.05).
Conclusions: All 9 circummaxillary sutural widths increased in skeletally mature patients immediately after MARPE. The greatest increases in width were measured in the midpalatal sutures and the intermaxillary sutures, followed by the frontomaxillary sutures.
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