Research Article
Morphometric Analysis of Furcation Areas of Multirooted Teeth in a Tunisian Population
Table 5
Comparison of root trunk dimension of mandibular and maxillary molars between this study and other studies.
| | Author/year of publication | Maxillary molars | Mandibular molars | | MRT | DRT | BRT | LRT | BRT |
| | The present study | 4.61 | 4.23 | 4.12 | 4.43 | 3.82 | | Dababneh et al. [11] | 4.98 | 4.31 | 3.97 | 4.31 | 3.75 | | Roussa [12] | 3.49 | 4.14 | 3.46 | 3.5 | 2.8 | | Plagmann et al. [14] | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.3 | | Dunlap and Gher [16] | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | | | | Dunlap and Gher [16] | | | | 4.0 | 4.0 | | Rosenberg [19] | 5.0 | 3.5 | 3.0 | | | | Mandelaris et al. [20] | | | | 4.17 | 3.14 | | Kerns et al. [5] | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 3.3 | | Porciúncula et al. [21] | 4.44 | 4.26 | 3.50 | | |
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MRT: mesial root trunk, BRT: buccal root trunk, DRT: distal root trunk, and LRT: lingual root trunk.
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