Abstract

Introduction: The introduction of an application, especially designed for a smartphone to perform cephalometric analysis seems logical in today’s era. However the reliability of these applications against manually traced cephalometric methods must be verified. Hence the aims and objective of our study was to assess the validity, reliability and reproducibility of the cephalometric measurements derived from smartphone based application as compared to manual tracings. Materials and methods: Pretreatment lateral cephalogram were obtained from the conventional cephalostat. Tracings were done manually on acetate sheets and using CephNinja Pro for IPhone. Cephalometric landmarks and measurements were recorded and compared by the same investigator. Results: All the measurements showed no statistically significant difference (p>0.05) for any of the cephalometric parameters. Conclusion: Smartphone based cephalometric analysis is valid and shows agreeable reproducibility with manual tracing analysis and is reliable for clinical decision making.

Keywords

cephalometric analysis, smartphone application, conventional cephalometric analysis