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Maybe we should heed Salzman‘ when he stated:

• The use of cephalometric standards drawn from individuals with

excellent occlusion as means of deciding treatment

objectives has no scientific justification!

• The only thing one can be certain about

cephalic measurements is that they will vary from patient

to patient.

• The range of variation is more important than the

mean of which the so called standards are based.”