A methodology to measure cervical vertebral bone maturation in a sample from low-income children

Brazilian Dental Journal

Luciana Barreto Vieira Aguiar¹  Maria De Paula Caldas¹  Francisco Haiter Neto¹  Glaucia Maria Bovi Ambrosano¹ 

关键词: vertebral bodies;    growth;    puberty;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0103-6440201301787

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This study evaluated the applicability of the regression method for determining vertebral age developed by Caldas et al. (2007) by testing this method in children from low-income families of the rural zone. The sample comprised cephalometric and hand-wrist radiographs of 76 boys and 64 girls aged 7.0 to 14.9 years living in a medium-sized city in the desert region of the northeastern region of Brazil, with an HDI of 0.678. C3 and C4 vertebrae were traced and measured on cephalometric radiographs to estimate the bone age. The average age, average hand-wrist age and average error estimated for girls and boys were, respectively, 10.62 and 10.44 years, 11.28 and 10.57 years, and 1.42 and 1.18 years. Based on these results, the formula proposed by Caldas et al. (2007) was not applicable to the studied population, and new multiple regression models were developed to obtain the children's vertebral bone age accurately.

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