[Dental age in dependence on the stage of selected physiological developmental parameters].

Result from a cross-sectional study on schoolchildren (aged 7 to 15 years) from Jena will be represented the intercorrelations between the dental age and choice developmental criteria. Moreover we investigated the influence of a social factor (rank among siblings of the family) to the level of development of the teeth. It can be shown that the dental age is relatively independent of the level of physical development of children, but there is a rather strictly correlation with chronological age. It makes demands for an interdisciplinary investigation, to get differentiate insights into ontogenetical processes of growth and development especially in children and youth.