Table 4.

Prevalence of Styloid Process (SP) elongation reported in of previous studies.

Authors	Population	Study Model	Samples	Elongated SP > 30 mm (%)
Eagle5 (1949)	American	Panoramic	254	4.0
Kaufman et al.10 (1970)	American	Panoramic	484	28.0
Correll et al.31 (1979)	American	Panoramic	1771	18.2
O'Carroll et al.36 (1984)	American	Panoramic	479	78.5
Keur et al.33 (1986)	Australian	Panoramic	1135	30.0
Monsour & Young13 (1986)	Australian	Panoramic	670	21.1
Ferrairo et al.32 (1990)	Italian	Panoramic	286	84.4
Kursoglu et al.1 (2005)	Turkish	Panoramic	55	83.6
Ilguy et al.34 (2005, 2013)	Turkish	Pano/CT	860/69	3.7
Gokce et al.25 (2008)	Turkish	Panoramic	698	7.7
Balcioglu et al.24 (2009)	Turkish	Pano/skull	227	3.3
Sisman et al.38 (2009)	Turkish	Panoramic	149	7.7
More & Asrani2 (2010)	Indian	Panoramic	500	19.4
Bagga et al.37 (2012)	Indian	Panoramic	2706	79.5 B; 20.5 U
Oztas & Orhan3 (2012)	Turkish	Panoramic	2000	67.5
Roopashri et al.7 (2012)	Indian	Panoramic	300	78.5 B; 21.5 U
Vieira et al.28 (2015)	Brazilian	Panoramic	736	43.89
AlZarea et al.30 (2017)	Saudi Arabian	Panoramic	198	42.7 R; 52.4 L
Gracco et al.15 (2017)	Italian	Panoramic	600	33.0
Mathew et al.35 (2017)	South Indian	Panoramic	100	35.0
Patra et al.12 (2017)	Indian	Pano/skull	50	10.0
Jamal et al.16 (2018)	Saudi Arabian	Panoramic	1971	47.8 R; 52.5 L
Asutay et al.39 (2019)	Turkish	Panoramic	3678	7.01
Hettiarachchi et al.17 (2019)	Sri Lanka	Panoramic	100	24.6
Sharma et al.4 (2019)	Nepalese	Panoramic	1061	57.5 R; 42.3 L
Sridevi et al.18 (2019)	Indian	Panoramic	500	55.8
Aoun et al.9 (2020)	Lebanese	Panoramic	489	15.5
Rai et al.8 (2020)	NW Indian	Panoramic	1000	27.3
Chen et al. present study	Taiwanese	Panoramic	539	41.5 R; 36.2 L