Reliability of specific finger dermatoglyphic patterns and their association with dental caries

Autor: Pratibha, Ramani, G, Sentamilselvi, Vinod, Narayan, Priya, Premkumar, N, Anuja, Herald, Sherlin, R, Abilasha
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: General dentistry. 62(5)
ISSN: 0363-6771
Popis: The etiology of dental caries is generally agreed to be a complex problem with many indirect factors that may obscure the direct cause or causes. There is substantial evidence that heredity plays an important role in this disease. Dermatoglyphics is a study that can be used to indicate congenital abnormalities. This study sought to determine a correlation between the prevalence of dental caries and dermatoglyphic fingerprint patterns, and thus assess the reliability of such patterns for identifying a susceptibility to dental caries. The results showed that the association between people with dental caries and whorls in their fingerprints was 60.4% . The association between people without caries who had loops in their fingerprints was 55.7%. These associations had a statistical significance of P0.001.
Databáze: OpenAIRE