Relationship between dental age, chronological age and cervical vertebral maturation in children and adolescents from Bucaramanga, Colombia

Autor: Ethman Ariel Torres, Angelica Rojas, Angélica Torres, Martha Juliana Rodríguez, Sandra Juliana Rueda
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Oral Research, Vol 7, Iss 5, Pp 190-197 (2018)
ISSN: 0719-2479
0719-2460
DOI: 10.17126/joralres.2018.047
Popis: Objective: To determine the relationship between chronological age and dental age using Demirjian’s method and Baccetti’s method of cervical vertebral maturation in radiographs of children and adolescents aged 5 to 16 years in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia. Methods: An analytical observational cross-sectional study was performed in 1385 cephalometric and panoramic radiographs of 775 females and 610 males. Sex, dental age according to the Demirjian’s method, chronological age and degree of maturation of the cervical vertebrae according to Baccetti’s method were analyzed. The univariate analysis included the calculation of measures of central tendency for quantitative variables, and frequencies and proportions for qualitative variables. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated in the bivariate analysis. In the multivariate analysis a multiple linear regression was performed. A value of p
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