Dental age assessment in Caucasian subjects with third molar agenesis
Published Online: Jul 30, 2021
Page range: 35 - 39
Received: Feb 01, 2016
Accepted: Jan 01, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/aoj-2020-082
© 2017 Elham S. Abu Alhaija et al., published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Background
Delayed dental development has been linked with tooth agenesis. Research aimed at dental age estimation in subjects with third molar agenesis has been minimal.
Objectives
To investigate the association between dental stage of development and third molar agenesis.
Materials and methods
A total of 700 orthopantomograms (OPTs) were obtained for this study. The age of the subjects ranged from 10 to 16 years (13.66 ± 1.50 years). The subjects were divided into two groups of which group 1 consisted of 350 patients (175 females and 175 males) with third molar agenesis and group 2 (control group) had all third molars present. The control group matched the study group for gender and chronological age (CA). Dental age (DA) was estimated from the OPTs using the Demirjian method for all included subjects.
Results
The mean CA and DA in the third molar agenesis group were 13.81 ± 1.60 years and 13.72 ± 1.65 years, respectively (
Conclusions
Dental development was delayed in subjects with third molar agenesis but the delay in dental age was not affected by the severity or site of agenesis.