Relationship between dental calcification and skeletal maturation in a Peruvian sample. 2017

Rocío M Lecca-Morales, and Marcos J Carruitero
Private practice, Trujillo, Peru.

the objective of the study was to determine the relationship between dental calcification stages and skeletal maturation in a Peruvian sample. panoramic, cephalometric and carpal radiographs of 78 patients (34 girls and 44 boys) between 7 and 17 years old (9.90 ± 2.5 years) were evaluated. Stages of tooth calcification of the mandibular canine, first premolar, second premolar, and second molar and the skeletal maturation with a hand-wrist and a cervical vertebrae method were assessed. The relationships between the stages were assessed using Spearman's correlation coefficient. Additionally, the associations of mandibular and pubertal growth peak stages with tooth calcification were evaluated by Fisher's exact test. all teeth showed positive and statistically significant correlations, the highest correlation was between the mandibular second molar calcification stages with hand-wrist maturation stages (r = 0.758, p < 0.001) and with vertebrae cervical maturation stages (r = 0.605, p < 0.001). The pubertal growth spurt was found in the G stage of calcification of the second mandibular molar, and the mandibular growth peak was found in the F stage of calcification of the second molar. there was a positive relationship between dental calcification stages and skeletal maturation stages by hand-wrist and cervical vertebrae methods in the sample studied. Dental calcification stages of the second mandibular molar showed the highest positive correlation with the hand-wrist and cervical vertebrae stages.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D010568 Peru A country in western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, and located between Chile and Ecuador.
D011862 Radiography, Panoramic Extraoral body-section radiography depicting an entire maxilla, or both maxilla and mandible, on a single film. Orthopantomography,Panoramic Radiography,Pantomography,Orthopantomographies,Panoramic Radiographies,Pantomographies,Radiographies, Panoramic
D001846 Bone Development The growth and development of bones from fetus to adult. It includes two principal mechanisms of bone growth: growth in length of long bones at the epiphyseal cartilages and growth in thickness by depositing new bone (OSTEOGENESIS) with the actions of OSTEOBLASTS and OSTEOCLASTS. Bone Growth
D002508 Cephalometry The measurement of the dimensions of the HEAD. Craniometry
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000366 Age Determination by Teeth A means of identifying the age of an animal or human through tooth examination.

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