Applicability of Demirjian's method for dental age estimation in a group of Egyptian children.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aims of this study were to evaluate the applicability of Demirjian's method for dental age assessment in a group of Egyptian children in Minia city and to develop an age predictive equation suitable for the studied group.

Subjects and methods

In this retrospective, blind, cross-sectional study, 160 dental panoramic radiographs (DPTs) were selected from 420 DPTs from healthy children aged between three and 10 years old from the archived medical files of patients attending Minia University Dental Hospital (MUDH) and evaluated to estimate dental ages.

Results

Age was overestimated for almost all of the studied subjects with an accuracy range from 0.18 to 1.19 years for males and from 0.08 to 0.87 years for females, with the exception of two age subgroups (9-10-y

SUBMITTER: Moness Ali AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6430778 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature