TY - JOUR AU - Peker Ozturk, Hilal AU - Senel, Bugra AU - Avsever, Ismail Hakan AU - Ozkan, Aydin AU - Ozen, Tuncer AU - Gulen, Orhan PY - 2023/01/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Comparison of mandibular radiomorphometric indices on digital panoramic radiography and cone-beam computed tomography images in terms of osteoporosis risk detection JF - Journal of Social and Analytical Health JA - J. Soc. Anal. Health VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Orijinal Articles DO - 10.5281/zenodo.7528103 UR - https://jsoah.com/index.php/jsoah/article/view/85 SP - 18-25 AB - <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&lt;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&lt;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&lt;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> ER -