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Estimation of calendar age from the emergence times of permanent teeth in Punjabi children in Chandigarh, India. 1988

S S Kaul, and R K Pathak

Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Gingival emergence data for permanent teeth, obtained from an earlier cross-sectional study of 1137 Punjabi schoolchildren aged 6-14 years in Chandigarh, India, have been used to calculate the median age and the 10th-90th percentile range of age, for a given number of teeth present. From about 5 years (when the first tooth, on average, emerges) up to the time of emergence of second molars (around 14 years), the total number of permanent teeth emerged can be used to estimate the age of a child, with an error of about 13-34% of the median age for males and about 11-35% for females.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007194	India	A country in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan. The capitol is New Delhi.	Republic of India
D008297	Male		Males
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.
D012737	Sex Factors	Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.	Factor, Sex,Factors, Sex,Sex Factor
D014078	Tooth Eruption	The emergence of a tooth from within its follicle in the ALVEOLAR PROCESS of the MAXILLA or MANDIBLE into the ORAL CAVITY. (Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed)	Teething,Eruption, Tooth,Eruptions, Tooth,Tooth Eruptions