Relación entre edad cronológica, ósea y dental en pacientes de 6-11 años, Guayaquil, 2020.

Abstract

Introduction: the growth evaluation of patients based on their chronological age, dental age, bone age is relevant to obtain a diagnostic and propose an adequate treatment when they come into an odontological visit. Objective: relating the chronological age, dental age and bone age in patients to 6 - 11 years old. Materials and Methods: this is a observasional, transversal, and descriptive work which analyzed panoramic and cephalometric samples of radiological images from 100 children between 6 - 11 years old, selected from the radiological centers Denta Imagen and Joy’s Dental in 2020. The chronological age of every patient was determined according to their medical record. The dental age was obtained by using Demirjian's method and the bone age by Baccetti’s vertebral maturation analysis. Results: a value for R square of 0.28 was determined between chronological age and bone age, a value of 0,57 for the relationship between dental age and chronological age and a value of 0,22 in the relationship between dental age and bone age. Conclusion: the relationship between the chronological and dental ages showed an important statistical relationship. The relationship between dental age and bone age was not significant. More studies with a higher number of samples should be done in order to obtain strong and trustworthy results.