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Is the Assessment of Dental Age by the Nolla Method Valid for Eastern Turkish Children?
Author(s) -
Miloglu Ozkan,
Celikoglu Mevlut,
Dane Asim,
Cantekin Kenan,
Yilmaz Ahmet Berhan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01755.x
Subject(s) - turkish , dentistry , medicine , forensic odontology , age groups , forensic dentistry , significant difference , turkish population , wilcoxon signed rank test , demography , orthodontics , biology , mann–whitney u test , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , sociology , genotype , gene
The aim of this study was to investigate whether or not the Nolla method is appropriate for Turkish children for the determination of the dental age (DA). A group of 719 children between the ages of 6 and 18 years were included in the study. DAs from orthopantograms by the Nolla method were estimated. The results obtained were compared with chronologic age (CA). Paired t and the Wilcoxon tests were performed. Both genders were underestimated in dental maturity when compared with the reference samples in total (−0.3 years) ( p < 0.01). The differences in girls were statistically significant in total and in all groups except for 7–7.9. The differences in boys between the CAs and DAs were not statistically significant in total and in all groups except for 7–7.9 and 8–8.9. Although the accuracy of this method was suitable for boys, according to our findings, it was not suitable for girls.