COMPARISON OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL AGE WITH DENTAL AGE AND SKELETAL AGE–BY: A RADIOGRAPHIC  STUDY

Anil Sonara; Deepali Agarwal; Shloka Shah; Margee Turakhiya

Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2016

COMPARISON OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL AGE WITH DENTAL AGE AND SKELETAL AGE–BY: A RADIOGRAPHIC STUDY

Anil Sonara, Deepali Agarwal, Shloka Shah, Margee Turakhiya

Abstract :

?e purpose of the study was to compare skeletal age using and hand–wrist radiographs and to find the correlation amongst the skeletal, dental and chronological ages. One hundred healthy children in the age 9–16 years, were included in the study. hand–wrist of the right hand and opg were taken. Skeletal age was assessed hand–wrist radiographs according to the standards of Bjork, Grave and Brown Dental age was estimated by Demirgian method from orthopantomogram. Males and females both exhibit early dental development and females showed delayed skeletal maturation