Etemadi, Seylavi and Yadegari
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20 years of age and then decreased. They also reported
that a signi cant association exists between the volume
of the maxillary sinuses and the distance between the
two zygomatic buttresses and the zygomatic occipital
distance (Ariji etal. 1994). The maxillary sinus volume
reported by Arihi et al. (1994) was comparable to the
value obtained in our study (14.452.71 cm
3
).
However, in our study, the volume of the maxil-
lary sinus in males was signi cantly higher than that
in females and no signi cant association was noted
between the sinus volume and age. In our study, aside
from the relationship of the maxillary sinus volume with
age and sex, its correlation with some other craniofacial
parameters such as width and height of the palate in the
rst molar area in the coronal plane, anterior-posterior
length of the palate in the sagittal plane and the distance
between the two zygomatic buttresses in the axial plane
was also eval uated and it was found that a correlation
existed between the volume of the maxillary sinus and
the distance between the two zygomatic buttresses; this
nding was comparable to that of Ariji etal. Moreover,
it was found that the greater the width and height of the
palate, the greater the size of the maxillary sinus would
be (P<0.05). But no signi cant correlation was found
between the sinus volume and the anterior-posterior
length of the hard palate (P>0.05).
CONCLUSION
The current results showed that Despite the presence of
a signi cant association between gender and volume of
the maxillary sinus (P<0.05), since the area under the
ROC curve was 0.627 or 62.7% (smaller than 0.70), vol-
ume of the maxillary sinus cannot serve as a de nite
and reliable indicator for sexual. Also, a correlation was
noted between the maxillary sinus volume and width
and height of the palate at the rst molar site and the
distance between the two zygomatic buttresses.
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