Estimation of calendar age from eruption times of permanent teeth in Kenyan Africans and Asians

dc.contributor.author	Hassanali, J
dc.contributor.author	Odhiambo, John W
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-29T12:30:19Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-29T12:30:19Z
dc.date.issued	1982
dc.identifier.citation	Ann Hum Biol. 1982 Mar-Apr;9(2):175-7.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7081950
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17750
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.title	Estimation of calendar age from eruption times of permanent teeth in Kenyan Africans and Asians	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Human Anatomy, University of Nairobi	en