Applicability of Willemâs Method of Dental Age Assessment in 14 Years Threshold Children in South India - A Pilot Study

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“…Similarly, Rafael Boschetti 4 revealed age overestimation in both HIV and control groups. On the contrary, two studies disclosed age underestimation using Willems method 13,27 . Ali Alqerban, et al, found that the difference in the mean absolute error for predicting age was close enough to zero (0.03) to be considered clinically irrelevant 14 .…”

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Dental Age Estimation in HIV-infected Children Using Willems Method

Paknahad,

Garmabi,

Shokufan Hosseini Heravi

et al. 2023

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Objective: HIV patients differ from other people in terms of dental age. Estimating the age of children abandoned due to HIV is crucial for forensic records. The present study aimed to compare HIV-infected children with healthy controls in terms of dental age using the Willems method. Methods: The study sample consisted of orthopantomograms of 40 HIV patients aged 5-16 years and 50 children aged 6-16 years as the control group. The HIV group included children with vertical infections who had received antiretroviral therapy. The Willems method was used to compare two groups in terms of dental age. Results: Dental age estimation in both HIV and control groups was overestimated using the Willems method. Nevertheless, the overestimation rate was approximately one month in the control group and less than two months in the HIV group, making the method widely applicable for estimating dental age in both healthy children and HIV patients. The dental age of the HIV-infected children was lower than that of the control group. Conclusion: This study indicated a lower dental age in the HIV-infected children compared to the control group. The results demonstrated that dental age estimation using Willems method closely approximated the chronological age of HIV patients.

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Dental Age Estimation in HIV-infected Children Using Willems Method

Paknahad,

Garmabi,

Shokufan Hosseini Heravi

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“…Because of its high accuracy and easy methodology many studies have used Willem's method [6][7][8][9][10] in western population. Only little research [11][12][13][14][15] has been done to investigate the suitability of Willems method on south Indian population and the applicability of Willems method was not studied in population of Raichur city of Karnataka state (south India). Hence this investigation was done to determine the applicability of Willems method to the population of Raichur city of Karnataka state (south India)…”

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Applicability of Willems method of dental age estimation to the population of Raichur city of Karnataka

Kumar¹,

Kopuri²,

Ealla³

2020

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Introduction: Dental age is one of the parameter for the growth assessment and tooth calcification provides a better measure of dental age in comparison to tooth eruption. There are numerous methods available in literature to determine dental age based on tooth calcification. Nowadays Willem's method is gaining wider recognition because many studies have proved its accuracy in various populations in Western countries but very few studies are available about its applicability to Karnataka State population (South Indian Population). Hence this study has been carried out to test the applicability of Willem's method to the population (children) of Raichur city of Karnataka state (south Indian population). Materials and Methods: Sample size of 250 south Indian children in 6-13 years age group participated in the study out of which there were 111 females and 139 were males. Dental age was calculated using Willems method and chronological age was determined using date of birth. Pearson's correlation coefficient and students" t" test was applied for statistical analysis of the data. Results: There was positive correlation between two ages in both genders. 0.06 years was the mean difference in total male sample and 0.07 years was the mean difference in total female sample. Conclusion: The mean difference between chronological and dental age was very minimal and both ages were positively correlated thus indicating that Willem's method was accurately applicable to the children of Raichur city of Karnataka state (south India). To support our observations we recommend further studies with larger sample size.

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Applicability of Willemâs Method of Dental Age Assessment in 14 Years Threshold Children in South India - A Pilot Study

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Dental Age Estimation in HIV-infected Children Using Willems Method

Dental Age Estimation in HIV-infected Children Using Willems Method

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Applicability of Willemâs Method of Dental Age Assessment in 14 Years Threshold Children in South India - A Pilot Study

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Dental Age Estimation in HIV-infected Children Using Willems Method

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Applicability of Willemâs Method of Dental Age Assessment in 14 Years Threshold Children in South India - A Pilot Study