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Dental Age Estimation Among Children Aged 5–14 Years Using the Demirjian Method in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ivan Galić
; Student doktorskog studija, Zavod za dentalnu antropologiju Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Enita Nakaš
; Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Sarajevu, Bosna i Hercegovina
Samir Prohić
; Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Sarajevu, Bosna i Hercegovina
Edin Selimović
; Zdravstveni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zenici, Bosna i Hercegovina
Bojan Obradović
; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Banjaluci, Bosna i Hercegovina
Marko Petrovečki
; Student doktorskog studija, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Dental age assessment in developing children has importance in pediatric dentistry, orthodontics and forensic science. Demirjian method, based on French-Canadian children, described in 1973 and based on Tanner-Whitehouse (TW) skeletal maturity technique, was mostly used. Aim: To evaluate the validity of Demirjian’s method for dental age estimation in Bosnian-Herzegovian (BH) children. Subjects and Methods: Adopted (Demirjian dental) development scores from 1976 of the seven left mandibular teeth were tested on panoramic radiographs of 1106 children (597 girls and 509 boys, ages 5-14). The paired samples t-test was used to compare a dental and chronological age. Results: The mean difference in each age group between the dental age and chronological age ranged from 0.60 to 2.17 years in girls and from 0.63 to 2.60 years in boys. The results
showed that the BH children demonstrated a more advanced dental age compared to Demirjian’s standards from 1976. Conclusion: The Demirjian’s standards of dental age assessment for French-Canadian children are not suitable for BH children. Further research, including greater sample should result a specific, BH based standards of dental age assessment for children.
Ključne riječi
Age Determination by Teeth; Forensic Dentistry; Radiography, Panoramic; Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hrčak ID:
48900
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Datum izdavanja:
15.3.2010.
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