Public MSc Viva-Voce Examination of Mr. Abdul-Malik AL-SABRI

Tuesday, Rajab 14^th 1446H, January 14^th, 2025, the candidate researcher/

Mr. Abdul-Malik Abdul-Rahman AL-SABRI

Obtained the Master degree with an Excellent average in the major of Clinical Orthodontics from the Department of Orthodontics, Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Sanaa University,

For his Master’s thesis entitled:

Correlation between Cervical Vertebrae Maturation and Chronological Age

in a group of Yemeni Growing Patients

The examining committee consisted of:

• Associate Professor Dr. Fuad Lutf AL-MUTAREB, Principle Supervisor

Committee Member,

• Professor Dr. Yasser THABET, External Examiner

Head of Committee, and

• Associate Professor Dr. Mohammed AL-LABANY, Internal Examiner

Committee Member.

The study aims at evaluating the correlation between Cervical Vertebrae Maturation and Chronological Age in a group of Yemeni Growing Patients.

The study comes out with some results as follows: There exists a statistically significant spearman rank correlation between the chronological age and the cervical vertebral maturation stages for both genders, particularly for: 10.25 up to 13.18 years old for male and 10.04-12.15 years old for female.

The researcher presents a number of recommendations at the end of this Master’s thesis, of which: Future studies must increase samples so as to include all society groups.

Attendees of the viva session were a number of academics, researchers, students of the major, the researcher’s colleagues and some of family members.