title: Correlation between permanent tooth eruption pattern and the predominance of the motor function laterality.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To asses whether dental eruption order can play a role in the early diagnosis of crossed laterality.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dental eruption pattern along with eye, ear, hand and foot lateralism were examined on 131 children between 6 to 8 years old from public schools from a multietnic population area of Barcelona city. Statistic methods (Statgraphics Plus 5.1 program) were used to evaluate data recollected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only foot and dentition lateralities behave as independent variables regarding hand laterality. So dental eruption laterality (along with the foot one) would be one of the parameters more related to hand laterality given that dentition variable relationship is greater that the foot one. This suggests that tooth eruption could be more clinically relevant. Crossed laterality hand-foot is significantly more predominant in men (13%) than in women (1,6%). Meanwhile, the relationship between hand and dentition didn't show any influence of sex.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dental eruption order, can be used as a good parameter in the determination of the patient's laterality.
authors.affiliation: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Campus Sant Cugat, Sant Cugat del Valles, (Barcelona), Spain, andreup@uic.es.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Veloso-Durán
authors.forename: Ma Carmen
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Vazquez-Salceda
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: López-Jiménez
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veloso-Durán
authors.forename: Andreu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puigdollers
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D019229:Dentition, Permanent; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014078:Tooth Eruption / Q000502:physiology*