title: The validity of estimated age in rural Pakistani children based on interviews with mothers and tooth counts of primary teeth.
abstract: Assessment of chronological age in children aged 6-30 months was made by obtaining information from uneducated rural Pakistani mothers and by means of counting the number of emerged primary teeth. There was found no statistically significant difference in the validity in age assessment between two methods. The average difference between true chronological age and perceived age was -0.8 months (SD 2.5 months) in boys, and 0.9 months (SD 3.9 months) in girls. The average difference between true chronological age and dental age was -0.4 months (SD 3.5 months) in boys, and 0.8 months (SD 4.8 months) in girls.
authors: Department of Social and Preventive Paediatrics, King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Saleemi
authors: U
authors: U
authors: Hägg
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Jalil
mesh_terms: D000366:Age Determination by Teeth; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D010154:Pakistan; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012424:Rural Population; D012737:Sex Factors; D014078:Tooth Eruption; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000033:anatomy & histology*