the study is searching if there is a relationship between the blood groups and RH and the skeletal malocclusion using the skeletal class I as a control group
The study will be conducted on the patients seeking medical care in the orthodontic department Cairo University, for six months all patients with class II and class III malocclusion will be recruited based on Wits appraisal measured from the cephalometric X-ray taken routinely during orthodontic examination. Then a group of class I arch length discrepancy patients will be used as control. A blood sample will be withdrawn and taken to the Cairo university laboratory to analyze the blood group and RH .a statistical analysis will be performed to detect a relationship between skeletal malocclusion and the blood groups as compared to the control
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
300
a blood sample will be withdrawn from the subjects tested by anti A anti B and anti D antigens to detect the individuals blood group and RH. then statistical analysis to detect presence of a relationship between skeletal types of malocclusion and ABO blood groups
relationship between blood group and skeletal malocclusion
If skeletal malocclusion subjects were found to have a high percentage of a certain blood type or RH when compared to the control group it will be reported that there is a relationship between blood group and skeletal malocclusion. If percentages of blood groups are approximately the same in the malocclusion subjects and the control then the investigator will report that there is no relationship between blood groups and skeletal malocclusion
Time frame: the recruitment will be for six months
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