Saudi Journal of Oral and Dental Research (SJODR)
Volume-4 | Issue-07 | 472-477
Original Research Article
Assessment of Occlusal Plane in Angle’s Class I, II, III Malocclusion Patient and Relating the Result to Edentulous Patients: A Cephalometric Analysis
Dr. Sumit Singh, Dr. Mayur Kahate, Dr. Anshuman Chaturvedi
Published : July 30, 2019
Abstract
Since long there has been persistent controversy among Prosthodontists regarding the Camper’s line or Ala-tragus line
which helps in establishing the occlusal plane in edentulous patients. Which posterior part of the tragus of ear has to be
taken into consideration? It is the superior border of tragus or middle or Inferior border of tragus. Some authors postulate
the usage of superior border whereas some postulate the usage of inferior border and very few postulate the usage of
inferior border. To solve this controversy the present study was undertaken and we did cephalometric tracing on
dentulous patients with different types of malocclusions and applied our results in the edentulous patients. Different
Angle’s molar relation Class II, Class II and Class III were considered in the study there lateral cephalograms were
obtained on which cephalometric tracings were performed and the parallelism of campers line was checked with the
occlusal plane with all the three points i.e Superior, middle and Inferior border of tragus of ear. Result revealed that the
line drawn from the inferior border was much more parallel to the occlusal plane of dentulous patient than the middle and
superior borders.