Correlation Between Tongue Morphology and Dental Arch Dimensions in Skeletal Class I and Class II Malocclusions: A Cephalometric Study

Saransha Mehra; Shelly Saxena; Saloni Pansotra; Jitendra Puri; Kashif Mohammed; Smriti Saha; Seema Gupta; Santosh Kumar

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Correlation Between Tongue Morphology and Dental Arch Dimensions in Skeletal Class I and Class II Malocclusions: A Cephalometric Study

Saransha Mehra Shelly Saxena Saloni Pansotra Jitendra Puri Kashif Mohammed Smriti Saha Seema Gupta Santosh Kumar

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Published: Mar 21, 2025

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Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Science and Technology, School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252059, China

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Saransha Mehra, Shelly Saxena, Saloni Pansotra, et al. (2025). Correlation Between Tongue Morphology and Dental Arch Dimensions in Skeletal Class I and Class II Malocclusions: A Cephalometric Study. Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.80946

Correlation Between Tongue Morphology and Dental Arch Dimensions in Skeletal Class I and Class II Malocclusions: A Cephalometric Study

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