title: The relationship between dental age, bone age and chronological age in 54 children with short familial stature.
abstract: Patients with short familial stature (SFS) have a short body height, but their bone age is normal. The aim of this research was to assess dental maturity in 54 patients with SFS, aged from 4 to 15 1/2 years. Bone age was judged from radiographs of the left wrist, and dental age from orthopantomograms. Dental age was retarded in relation to chronological age and to bone age.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Odontology, University of Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vallejo-Bolaños
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: España-López
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001827:Body Height; D001846:Bone Development; D002348:Carpal Bones / Q000254:growth & development; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004392:Dwarfism / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D019066:Facies; D005260:Female; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009805:Odontogenesis; D011859:Radiography; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014953:Wrist / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging