Methods of determining a child's growth and development which are exact, reliable and also recordable objectively are important in confirming, treating and controlling the effect of treatment in both medicine and dentistry. A roentgenological determination of the skeletal age is generally used in estimating the physical age of a child. In this study, (1) the dental age, which is calculated from...

BACKGROUND Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease that affects the surface of the endocardium. The spread of microorganisms from the oral cavity has been associated with the occurrence of IE. OBJECTIVE To analyze whether dental treatment before cardiac valve surgery (CVS) influenced the occurrence of IE. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of the medical and dental histo...

purpose t1wi (t1 weighted image) was acquired in order to grade bone fusion following the studies by fifa (federation internationale de football associations). research using images other than t1wi has not been reported. the aim of this study is to evaluate the grade of epiphyseal fusion by t2* weighted images (t2*wi) and to investigate new findings on t2*wi as compared with t1wi. methods a tot...

background and aim: methods of age estimation with the aid of radiography have higher accuracy compared with other methods. some investigations have been performed in this regard, but the correlation between dental development and body mass index (bmi) has been limitedly researched. in the present study, the correlation between dental development and bmi in the children referring to the dental ...

BACKGROUND Age determination has great importance in many clinical decisions, being commonly used in odontopediatrics, orthodontics, pediatrics, and forensic medicine. The Nolla and Demirjian et al. methods have been used for these purposes. However, estimating chronological age by means of the dental mineralization stage is not a straightforward analysis, and it is fundamental to test the vali...

The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of simple equations proposed by Melgaco to predict the mesiodistal widths of the unerupted mandibular permanent canines and premolars in patients visiting Islamic International Dental hospital, Islamabad. This study was conducted during 2007-2008 at orthodontic department of Islamic International Dental Hospital, Islamabad. The sample consi...

Age-related changes in tooth color have been described previously, however, the use of dental color for age estimation in forensic odontology has been limited due to the difficulty of measuring color objectively. This study presents an objective method for determining dental color to estimate the age of an individual. Dentine color in 250 teeth from patients ranging in age from 10 to 89 years w...

The most frequently used measuring instrument for determination of dental fear and anxiety (DFA) in children nowadays is the Dental Subscale of the Children's Fear Survey Schedule (CFSS-DS). In this study we wanted to explore the reliability and validity of CFSS-DS scale in Bosnian children patients' sample. There were 120 patients in the study, divided in three age groups (8, 12, and 15 years ...

The robust nature of teeth and their ability to resist destruction, make them indispensable evidence in caseswhere human identification by a scientific method is required. Forensic odontology the branch dentistrythat combines knowledge oral maxillofacial region dentist with legal system. Dentalidentification has proven be boon disaster victim identification. Besides teeth, an odontologist canal...

introdouction: age estimation is an important issue in forensics, particularly for treatment planning and determining patients’ rights. radiographic evaluation of the third molar developmental stage is a significant criterion for age estimation. the pattern of tooth development is largely heritable and varies from race to race. the objective of this study was to radiographically examine and com...