American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
Original articleOnline onlyCervical vertebral and dental maturity in Turkish subjects
Section snippets
Material and methods
A retrospective cross-sectional study was designed. The sample was derived from the lateral cephalometric and panaromic radiographs of patients attending the orthodontic department of Dicle University. More than 2000 patient files were reviewed. The final study population consisted of 590 Turkish subjects. Interestingly, the group was randomly selected, but the numbers of male and female patients were equal (295). We made no effort to balance the sexes, but they were equal. Mean age for the
Results
Distribution of the chronological ages of the subjects according to cervical vertebra maturation indexes is shown in Table I. Mean and standard deviations of the chronological ages of the sexes according to cervical vertebral maturation indexes are listed. In the first 5 stages of the cervical vertebral maturity indexes, girls were younger, and, at the last stage, boys were younger.
Table II shows the results of Spearman rank order correlation coefficients between cervical vertebral and dental
Discussion
Several methods have been described to determine dental age.12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 One of these uses time of eruption as a parameter. The time of eruption is described as the moment the tooth pierces the mucosa.18 This is called tooth emergence. The first disadvantage of this method is determining its exact timing because it happens quickly. Also, tooth emergence can be altered by local factors, systemic diseases, and nutritional habits; reliability of the method is
Conclusions
Determining residual growth is an important factor in orthodontic treatment. Sometimes the whole treatment plan depends on the growth factor. With the aid of a panaromic radiograph, it is necessary to estimate a patient’s maturity by using dental development stages as an indicator in the Turkish population.
References (27)
- et al.
Skeletal maturation and craniofacial growth
Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop
(1990) - et al.
Skeletal maturation evaluation using cervical vertebrae
Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop
(1995) Tooth mineralization as an indicator of the pubertal growth spurt
Am J Orthod
(1980)Maturational development and facial form relative to treatment timing
Chronological versus skeletal age, an evaluation of craniofacial growth
Angle Orthod
(1979)Radiographic evaluation of skeletal maturationA clinically oriented method based on hand-wrist films
Angle Orthod
(1982)- et al.
Use of skeletal maturation based on hand-wrist radiographic analysis as a predictor of facial growth: a systematic review
Angle Orthod
(2004) - et al.
The cervical vertebral maturation method: some need for clarification
Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop
(2003) - et al.
Mandibular growth as related to cervical maturation and body height
Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop
(2000) - et al.
An improved version of the cervical maturation (CVM) method for the assessment of mandibular growth
Angle Orthod
(2002)
Skeletal maturation determined by cervical vertebrae development
Eur J Orthod
Skeletal age assessment utilizing cervical vertebrae (thesis)
Validity of the Demirjiyan method for dental age estimation when applied to Norwegian children
Acta Odontol Scand
Cited by (49)
Concordances and correlations between chronological, dental and bone ages: A retrospective study in French individuals
2022, Forensic Science InternationalCitation Excerpt :The mean correlation coefficients for all teeth are 0.523 for females and 0.333 in males but higher correlation was found in the second molar for both sexes (R=0.618). Similar to our study, Chen et al. [42], Başaran et al. [43], Cericato et al. [17], Chaudhry et al. [7], Gulati et al. [44], Mollabashi et al. [26], Rai et al. [45] and Rozylo-Kalinowska et al. [39] obtained significantly positive correlations between dental and bone ages. Mollabashi et al. (0.724 and 0.641 in boys and girls respectively) and Chen et al. (0.496 and 0.582 in boys and girls respectively) also reported stronger correlations for the mandibular second molar between dental and bone ages [26,42].
Correlating skeletal and dental developmental stages using radiographic parameters
2016, Journal of Forensic and Legal MedicineCitation Excerpt :The strongest correlation found in the present investigation occurred in the mandibular left second premolar, reaching 0.646 for Hassel and Farman15 and 0.652 for Bacetti et al.16 These outcomes are similar to the Italian30 population, and stronger compared to the Chinese26 population (0.528). However, it presents weaker correlation compared to other populations,25,27 such as Turkish25 (0.911). Although the correlations found in the present study were statistically significant, they must be carefully interpreted given the fact that 1) the outcomes reached moderate values (<0.652); and that 2) some dental developmental stages (F and G) fell into different cervical vertebrae developmental stages.
Utility of panoramic radiography for identification of the pubertal growth period
2016, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial OrthopedicsCitation Excerpt :Apex closure generally extends up to 16 years of age in normal children. Similar results were also found in Turkish subjects11,12 as well in Chinese girls2 and Indian subjects.13 In contrast, a strong correlation was found between the mineralization of the mandibular canine and skeletal maturation in the studies of Chertkow and Fatti23 and Coutinho et al.10 In Thai subjects, the premolars and the second molars showed high correlations.5
Individual dental and skeletal age assessment according to Demirjian and Baccetti: Updated norm values for Central-European patients
2022, Journal of Orofacial Orthopedics