Estimation of calendar age from eruption times of permanent teeth in Kenyan Africans and Asians
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1982Author
Hassanali, J
Odhiambo, John W
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Eruption data for permanent teeth, obtained from a previous cross-sectional study of 2847 African and Asian school children aged 4-14 years in Nairobi, Kenya, were used to calculate the median age and the 10th-90th percentile range of age, for a given number of teeth present. For a limited period (5-13 years) up to the time of eruption of second molars, the total number of permanent teeth erupted can be used to estimate the age of a child, with an error which increases with the number of teeth present. The range of this error is about 18-30% of the median age for African males, 21-29% for African females, 15-33% for Asian males and 18-33% for Asian females, with a 1 in 5 chance that the error may exceed these limits.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7081950http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17750
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Ann Hum Biol. 1982 Mar-Apr;9(2):175-7.Publisher
Department of Human Anatomy, University of Nairobi
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]