@article{Peker Ozturk_Senel_Avsever_Ozkan_Ozen_Gulen_2023, title={Comparison of mandibular radiomorphometric indices on digital panoramic radiography and cone-beam computed tomography images in terms of osteoporosis risk detection}, volume={3}, url={https://jsoah.com/index.php/jsoah/article/view/85}, DOI={10.5281/zenodo.7528103}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Aim:</strong>  The aim of this study was to compare the assessment of mental index, mandibular cortical index and bone quality index on digital panoramic radiography and cone-beam computed tomography.</p> <p><strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> Digital-panoramic-radiography and cone-beam-computerized-tomography images of 113 dental-patients who aged more than 45 years without systemic diseases were evaluated. The patients were divided into two groups according to mental-index (which was measured on panoramic-radiography) value set by £3 mm; the patients with osteoporosis risk and without. Mental-index was performed on both side(left-right), and the average value of two measurements was calculated. Mental-index, computerized-tomography-mental-index, mandibular-cortical-index, computerized-tomography-cortical-index and bone-quality-index were measured on digital-panoramic-radiography and cone-beam-computerized-tomography by two observers. Descriptive and logistic regression statistics were performed; p<0.05 was considered significant.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong>  The results of both methods were consistent with each other. For observers there were statistically significant differences between the osteoporotic risk-groups and the normal-groups for computerized-tomography-mental-index (p<0.001), mandibular-cortical-index/computerized-tomography-cortical-index, bone-quality-index. According to first and second observers’ measurements the optimum threshold value of computerized-tomography-mental-index was found respectively 3.01mm and 3.03mm for the risk of osteoporosis. The correlation(weighted-kappa-test) between mandibular-cortical-index and computerized-tomography-cortical-index values for observers’ evaluations respectively (1<sup>st </sup>and 2<sup>nd </sup>observer) was moderate and high. The frequency distributions of 1,2,3 classes were found significantly different(p<0.05) in both individuals with(osteoporotic) and without(healthy) risk of osteoporosis for bone-quality-index values ​​in both digital-panoramic-radiography and cone-beam-computerized-tomography images.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> cone-beam-computerized-tomography images can be used to assess the osteoporosis. By determining a threshold value in cone-beam-computerized-tomography, awareness of the patient can be raised by the dentist according to the status of these values, which can be easily measured on the image.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Social and Analytical Health}, author={Peker Ozturk, Hilal and Senel, Bugra and Avsever, Ismail Hakan and Ozkan, Aydin and Ozen, Tuncer and Gulen, Orhan}, year={2023}, month={Jan.}, pages={18–25} }