Recently, children born small for gestational age (SGA) with a catch-up growth failure, have been selected for high dose growth hormone (GH) treatment. In order to gain greater insight concerning dentofacial growth and maturation of these patients, and to evaluate the possible effects of high does GH administration on facial structures, craniofacial growth and dental maturation were evaluated i...

The age of the individual can be assessed as skeletal age, morphological age, secondary sex character age and dental age and these may be applied singly or in conjunction to assess the degree of physical maturity of a child. The determination of physiological age is based on the various degree of maturation of the different tissue systems. Dental age is one of the important factor taken into ac...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of caries in children aged 8-13 years having dental fluorosis and to determine the correlation between the grades of dental fluorosis and caries. MATERIAL AND METHODS 451 school children in the age group of 8-13 years were selected for the study and were divided into six age groups. The children were assessed for ...

OBJECTIVE To assess dental age in children with a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate and to compare this with a noncleft control group. DESIGN Two-group, mixed-longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Cleft group from an academic center for cleft lip and palate treatment. Noncleft control group from the same population. PATIENTS Participants included 70 Caucasian children with a full comp...

INTRODUCTION Dental age estimation methods are of particular value because teeth are highly resistant to mechanical, chemical, or physical impacts and time. Teeth are the strongest parts in the human body and are therefore very resistant to external influences, such as extreme temperatures, explosions, and other extreme conditions, which make them available for extensive postmortem periods. A...

Dental development and craniofacial growth were studied in 46 long term survivors of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT) performed in childhood, before the age of 12 (mean age 6.9 years). The aim of the study was to investigate the correlation between age at SCT, degree of disturbances in dental development and vertical growth of the face. A panoramic and a cephalometric radiograph w...

The possible influence of fear of death and attitude toward death were studied related to dental anxiety in Hungarian elementary and secondary school subjects (n = 277; 114 males, 163 females; age between 8 and 18 years). Dental fear and anxiety scores were DAS: 10.8 +/- 3.6; DFS: 40.6 +/- 15.6; STAI-S: 38.0 +/- 11.0; STAI-T: 40.3 +/- 10.0. Lester's Attitude Toward Death Scale scores were 6.3 +...

Background: Radiological images are utilized in the process of age estimation, which is one of the essential tools in the identification in forensic science. Age estimation of bodies that are severely mutilated or decomposed either in single cases or mass graves can be done with previous dental records of the victims. Objectives: To estimate the age using pulp tooth area ratio of right mandibul...

Equine dental developmental abnormalities can involve tooth number, morphology, or position in the dental arcades. Abnormalities of dental development and eruption occur quite commonly in the horse and result in a wide range of clinical conditions. Some developmental dental abnormalities of a young horse may not cause the animal to exhibit clinical signs of dental disease until it reaches middl...