Sevcihan Günen Yılmaz1, Abubekir Harorlı2, Münevver Kılıç3, İbrahim Şevki Bayrakdar4. 1. a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry , Akdeniz University , Antalya , Turkey. 2. b Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry , Atatürk University , Erzurum , Turkey. 3. c Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry , Atatürk University , Erzurum , Turkey. 4. d Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry , Eskisehir Osmangazi University , Eskisehir , Turkey.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of evaluating the relationship between dental maturation and skeletal maturation without taking a hand-wrist radiogram outside of panoramic radiogram. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Panoramic and hand-wrist radiographs of 717 patients (383 girls and 334 boys), with ages ranging from 10 to 15 years, were evaluated. Dental maturity stages of the mandibular canine, first premolar, second premolar and second molar teeth were determined by Demirjian's and Nolla's methods. The skeletal maturation was determined by Fishman method and bone age was determined through the Greulich and Pyle method. RESULTS: All teeth showed positive and statistically significant correlations, the highest correlation was between the mandibular second premolar calcification stages and hand-wrist maturation stages. According to both dental age determination methods, mandibular second premolar was prominent in determining to the pubertal growth stages. CONCLUSIONS: There was a positive relationship between dental calcification stages and skeletal maturation stages, in the study population. Dental calcification stages of the second mandibular premolar showed the highest positive correlation with the skeletal maturation stages.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of evaluating the relationship between dental maturation and skeletal maturation without taking a hand-wrist radiogram outside of panoramic radiogram. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Panoramic and hand-wrist radiographs of 717 patients (383 girls and 334 boys), with ages ranging from 10 to 15 years, were evaluated. Dental maturity stages of the mandibular canine, first premolar, second premolar and second molar teeth were determined by Demirjian's and Nolla's methods. The skeletal maturation was determined by Fishman method and bone age was determined through the Greulich and Pyle method. RESULTS: All teeth showed positive and statistically significant correlations, the highest correlation was between the mandibular second premolar calcification stages and hand-wrist maturation stages. According to both dental age determination methods, mandibular second premolar was prominent in determining to the pubertal growth stages. CONCLUSIONS: There was a positive relationship between dental calcification stages and skeletal maturation stages, in the study population. Dental calcification stages of the second mandibular premolar showed the highest positive correlation with the skeletal maturation stages.