We hypothesized that IGF-1 levels will be associated with increases in anterior facial height and mandibular length. Mandibular length while controlling for the effects of cervical stage, skeletal classification, and gender.
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The purpose of the present study was to use linear regression models that use IGF-1 levels to predict the annual growth rate of anterior facial height as well as To date, the simultaneous interaction between IGF-1, cervical stage, gender, and skeletal classification has not been longitudinally studied, and no method has been proposed to predict the timing and intensity of facial growth using IGF-1 controlling for these factors. Our prior research has shown that there is a significant positive correlation between longitudinal changes in IGF-1 levels and changes in mandibular length with significantly greater mandibular growth occurring when IGF-1 levels showed an ascending pattern and averaged over 250 ^g/L over two consecutive observations.
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* Correspondence: of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry and DentalClinics, The In earlier studies, we had cross-sectionally related IGF-1 levels to both cervical stages and hand-wrist radiograph stages, with the highest IGF. IGF-1 is a mediator for growth hormone that has been shown to exhibit local and systemic influences in stimulating longitudinal bone growth. The frequently used methods include skeletal maturation indicators (SMIs) developed by Fish-man and cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) derived from hand-wrist radiographs. Keywords: Mandible IGF-1 Vertical dimension Craniofacial biology Developmental biology Growth factors Growth predictionĬurrently, several methods for predicting facial growth are in vogue. These factors together explain more of the observed individual variation in growth rate than any of the factors used in isolation. We found that the change in IGF-1 level was the only statistically significant predictor of this outcome.Ĭonclusions: The proposed method which combines IGF-1 levels with information that is readily available to clinicians can be used to predict the timing and intensity of the growth spurt. The regression model for predicting the annual change in anterior facial height was significant at p < 0.01 with an R-square value of 0.42. We found that the average IGF-1 level for the interval, the change in IGF-1 level, and the presence of a skeletal class III pattern were statistically significant predictors of mandibular growth. Results: The linear regression model for predicting the annual mandibular growth rate was significant at p < 0.01 with an R-square value of 0.52. Descriptive, bivariate, and regression analyses were used to analyze this data. The number of years each patient was followed up varied between 1 and 5 years resulting in 43 12-month intervals collected from 77 observations. Methods: Twenty-five orthodontic patients (12 females and 13 males) had their cervical stages, blood-spot IGF-1 levels, and cephalometric parameters measured at 1-year intervals. Mohamed I Masoud1,2, Hussain Y A Marghalani2,3, Mohamed Bamashmous4,5, Najlaa M Alamoudi6, Douaa El Derwi6,7, Ibrahim M Masoud8, Veerasathpurush Allareddy9* and Nour F Gowharji10īackground: The purpose of this study was to predict the annual growth rate of the mandible and total anterior facial height using IGF-1 levels together with cervical stage, skeletal classification, and gender. Predicting changes in mandibular length and total anterior facial height using IGF-1, cervical stage, skeletal classification, and gender