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Correlations between skeletal maturity and dental calcification stages in Korean children
M J Jeong1, K E Lee2, Y K Chae1
1Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Aim:
To evaluate the relationship between dental calcification and skeletal maturity and to identify the tooth with the highest correlation with skeletal maturity index in Korean children.
Materials:
For 447 children (205 boys and 242 girls) aged between 5 and 13 years, hand-wrist and lateral cephalometric radiographs were taken to assess skeletal maturity by Fishman's skeletal maturity indicators (SMI) and Baccetti's cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) stages. Dental panoramic radiographs were taken to assess dental maturity of the permanent mandibular canine, first and second premolar, and second molar using the method devised by Dermirjian.
Conclusion:
Dental calcification stages determined by panoramic radiographs can be clinically used as useful indices to predict skeletal maturity in Korean children.
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