
Prevalence of tooth size discrepancy among North Indian orthodontic patients
Author(s) -
Rekha Sharma,
Sushil Kumar,
Anu Singla
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
contemporary clinical dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 0976-237X
pISSN - 0976-2361
DOI - 10.4103/0976-237x.86445
Subject(s) - calipers , medicine , dentistry , arch , dental arch , molar , orthodontics , standard deviation , sample size determination , mathematics , statistics , civil engineering , geometry , engineering
To determine the prevalence of tooth size discrepancy (TSD) in a representative orthodontics population, to explore how many millimeters of TSD is clinically significant and to determine the ability of simple visual inspection to detect such a discrepancy.