%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of maximal mouth opening for healthy Indian children: Percentiles and impact of age, gender, and height
%A Geet Gunjana A. Khaitan
%A Nehal H. Patel
%A Parth Patel
%A Rajesh N. Joshi
%A Rashmi S. Thanvi
%A Shital M. Patel
%J Archive of "National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/0975-5950.196140
%X Maximal mouth opening (MMO) is used as a marker of masticatory pathology. However, MMO among children varies considerably with their age, height, sex, and race. While accurate percentile of normal mouth opening and relationship with anthropometric measurement are not precisely defined for the Indian population, we designed prospective, observational study to define the percentiles for normal MMO in our children
%K Indian children
%K maximal mouth opening
%K physical growth
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5242072/