Correlationship between the stages of tooth mineralization on the lower arch and the skeletal age. Literature review

Luiz Fernando ETO, Enio Tonani MAZZIEIRO

The aim of this work was to get a correlationship between the stages of tooth mineralization and the skeletal age. This work was carried on in order to clean the controverses find in the literature about this subject. While some articles don’t get any correlationship between those biological age, some show a great relation between them, suggesting the possibility of determine the skeletal age using the stages of tooth mineralization.

Keywords: Tooth mineralization. Puberal growth spurts. Skeletal age.

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