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Evaluation of the accuracy of Demirjian method for estimation of dental age among 6-12 years of children in Navi Mumbai: A radiographic study
Author(s) -
Rahul J Hegde,
Sumedh S Khare,
Tanvi Saraf,
Sonal Trivedi,
Sonal Naidu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3905
pISSN - 0970-4388
DOI - 10.4103/0970-4388.165693
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , significant difference , estimation , age groups , population , orthodontics , demography , environmental health , management , sociology , economics
Dental formation is superior to eruption as a method of dental age (DA) assessment. Eruption is only a brief occurrence, whereas formation may be related at different chronologic age levels, thereby providing a precise index for determining DA. The study was designed to determine the nature of inter-relationship between chronologic and DA.

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