Table 1.

Demographic data concerning the prevalence of elongated styloid process using OPG

Study	Year	Demographic population	Participants	ESP > 30 mm
Al Zarea et al. [2]	2017	Saudi Arabian	198	44%
Vieira et al. [3]	2015	Brazilian	736	43.89%
Kaufman et al. [8]	1970	American	484	28%
Goldstein & Scopp [10]	1973	American	554	22.2%
Gossman & Tarsitano [11]	1977	American	4200	4%
Correl et al. [12]	1979	American	1771	18.2%
O’Carroll et al. [13]	1984	American	479	35.3%
Monsour and Young et al. [14]	1986	Australian	1200	21.1%
Keur et al. [15]	1986	Australian	1135	30%
Ferrario et al. [16]	1990	Italian	286	84.4%
Bozkir et al. [17]	1999	Turkish	200	4%
MacDonald-Jankowski et al. [18]	2001	Londoners & Chinese (HK)	1662	7.8–8.6%%
Scaf et al. [19]	2003	Brazilian	166	12.6%
Kursoglu et al. [20]	2005	Turkish	55	83.6%
Ilguy et al. [9]	2005	Turkish	860	3.7%
Radfar et al. [21]	2008	Iranian	1000	22%
Gokce et al. [22]	2008	Turkish	698	7.7%
Balcioglu et al. [23]	2009	Turkish	227	3.3%
More & Asrani et al. [24]	2010	Indian	500	19.4%
Öztaş et al. [25]	2012	Turkish	2000	67.5%
Bagga et al. [26]	2012	Indian	2706	52.1%
Shaik et al. [28]	2013	Saudi Arabian	1162	63.2% M; 36.8%F
Alpoz et al. [29]	2014	Turkish	1600	28.8%
Chabikuli et al. [30]	2016	South African	147	69%
Sakhdari et al. [31]	2017	Iranian	500	17.7%
Rai et al. [32]	2017	West Indian	987	27.3%
Gracco et al. [33]	2017	Italian	600	31%
Mathew et al. [34]	2017	Indian (Kerala)	100	35%
Hettiarachchi et al. [35]	2019	Sri Lankan	100	29%
Zokaris et al. [36]	2019	Greek	805	30%
Sharma et al. [37]	2019	Nepalese	1061	57.5% R; 42.3% L
Sridevi et al. [38]	2019	Indian	500	55.8%
Asutai et al. [39]	2019	Turkish (East Aegean)	3678	7.01%
Aoun et al. [40]	2020	Lebanese	489	15.5%
AlSweed et al. [41]	2021	Saudi Arabian	2010	21%
Swapna et al. [42]	2021	Saudi Arabian	300	27.3%
Chen et al. [43]	2022	Taiwanese	593	41.5% R; 36.2% L
Roopashri et al. [44]	2012	Indian	300	35.6%