Title

Association between systemic osteoporosis and mandibular condyle characteristics: A comparative imaging study

Authors

Parnavi Mishra^1,*, Annette M Bhambal¹, Harish Rao², Sudhanshu Saxena³, Preeti Nair¹ & G.C. Shivakumar¹

Affiliation

¹Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, People's College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of Orthopaedics, People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³Department of Dentistry, MGM Medical College and Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand- 831020, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Parnavi Mishra - E-mail: parnavimishra45@gmail.com
Annette M Bhambal - E-mail: 11drann@gmail.com
Harish Rao - E-mail: harishrao27@gmail.com
Sudhanshu Saxena - E-mail: dr.sudhanshusaxena@gmail.com
Preeti Nair - E-mail: shajihoss@hotmail.com
G C Shivakumar - E-mail: shiva21375@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received January 1, 2026; Revised January 31, 2026; Accepted January 31, 2026, Published January 31, 2026

Abstract

Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disease, which is associated with lowered bone density and changed bone structure. Therefore, it is of interest to compare and evaluate the bone mineral density (BMD) and morphology of the mandibular condyle of patients with osteoporosis and no osteoporosis using the imaging method. The sample size of 30 patients (over 40 years old) was selected at random and split into two equal groups i.e. Control (non-osteoporotic) and Experimental (Osteoporotic). Systemic bone density was measured with ultra-heel bone densitometer and the condylar bone density parameters and morphological changes were measured with the Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Osteoporotic subjects showed low bone density of the condyles than that of non-osteoporotic controls.

Keywords

Osteoporosis, mandibular condyl, bone density, cone-beam computed tomography and morphology.

Citation

Mishra et al. Bioinformation 22(1): 304-310 (2026)

Edited by

Vini Mehta

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.