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In this case, the menton deviated on the right, a sporadic condition, which may be the consequence of a disorder in the mandibular growth.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title><jats:p>The young male patient was treated with rapid palatal expander (RPE) and Fr\u00e4nkel functional regulator III (FR-3). The initial CBCT was acquired at the beginning of therapy when the patient was 8 years old, and the final CBCT was developed at the end of the treatment when the patient was 12 years old. The patient's CBCT was performed with the head oriented according to the Natural Head Position (NHP); the NHP is a physiological and reproducible posture defined for morphological analysis. The 3D image of the cranium was oriented in the Dolphin software according to NHP posture, and cephalometric measurements were taken in the software's frontal, laterolateral right and left, posteroanterior, and submentovertex views. 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