Original scientific paper
Studies of Two Different Methods for Dental Age Estimation in Croatian Children
Ivana Borčić
Marko Petrovečki
Hrvoje Brkić
Abstract
Dental age determination in children and adults is an important task in the clinical, forensic and archaeological examinations. The objective of this paper was to compare the reliability of the Demirjian’s and Haavikko’s methods in the determination of chronological age of Croatian children. Dental maturity was studied by the use of 115 panoramic radiographs of Caucasian children of both sexes aged between 4 and 17, from the archives of the School of Dental Medicine and the Dental Clinic of the Clinical Hospital Centre in Zagreb. The median age for both groups was 12 years. Correlation coeffi cient between estimated and real age for the total sample according to Demirjian’s method was 0.96 (p<0,001), while for Haavikko’s method it was 0.97 (p<0,001). According to the monitored methods, the correlation coeffi cients for both sexes were high and statistically signifi cant. Results of this research show the possibility for use of both methods in clinical and forensic cases in Croatia.
Keywords
aging; age determination by teeth; forensic dentistry
Hrčak ID:
11572
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2006.
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