title: Assessment of skeletal and dental ages of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
abstract: The present study aimed to assess the skeletal and dental ages of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients. Therefore, panoramic and hand-wrist radiographs of 82 patients, aged between 5 and 15 years, were collected and divided into case and control groups. The case group consisted of 41 panoramic and 41 hand-wrist radiographs of T1DM patients, whereas the control group consisted of 41 panoramic and 41 hand-wrist radiographs of patients without T1DM. Skeletal age was assessed according to the method of Greulich and Pyle (1999), whereas dental age was assessed according to the method of Nolla (1960). Chi-square tests revealed no statistically significant differences between skeletal and dental ages between the case and control groups (p > 0.05). However, in the case group, the skeletal age of females was greater than that of age-matched males (p = 0.005). Considering that skeletal and dental growth of the case and control groups were closely related, clinical interventions involving orthodontics and dentomaxillofacial orthopedics should be equally performed both for healthy and specific patient groups, such as those with T1DM.
authors: Department of Stomatolgy, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Ilana Sanamaika Queiroga
authors: IS
authors: Bezerra
authors: Department of Stomatolgy, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Francielle
authors: F
authors: Topolski
authors: Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Suzana Nesi
authors: SN
authors: França
authors: Department of Surgery, School of Dentistry, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Márcia Rejane
authors: MR
authors: Brücker
authors: Department of Stomatolgy, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors: Ângela
authors: Â
authors: Fernandes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development / Q000502:physiology; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D000366:Age Determination by Teeth; D001846:Bone Development / Q000502:physiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D012737:Sex Factors