Review Article
Rapid Maxillary Expansion and Upper Airway Morphology: A Systematic Review on the Role of Cone Beam Computed Tomography
Table 1
PICOS description.
| Population | Clinical patient studies that evaluated the effects of specific rapid maxillary expansion on the volume of the nasopharyngeal airway | Intervention | Rapid maxillary expansion evaluated via cone beam computed tomography | Comparison | Age- and sex-matched subjects who did not undergo rapid maxillary expansion therapy | Outcome | Changes in the dimensions of the nasopharyngeal airway | Study design | Randomized and nonrandomized controlled trials and observational studies. Case reports and author’s opinion publications were excluded |
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