Correlación entre estadios de maduración carpal y estadios de desarrollo dental en Centro Médico “SuMédico”.

Abstract

Introduction: Human beings have remarkable changes during growth, because of this have described different methods to analyze bone and dental maturation, which are necessary to determine a good diagnosis and a correct treatment plan during orthodontic procedures. Objective: Evaluate the correlation between stages of carpal maturation and stages of dental development. Materials and Methods: A descriptive study of correlational and transverse type, in which a sample of 81 patients who were attended in the last 4 months in medical center "SuMédico” were used, respecting the inclusion and exclusion criteria. For carpal maturation was used the method of Björk, Grave and Brown, Baccetti's method for cervical maturation and the method of Demirjian was used for dental development. Results: Analyzing the radiographs of the 81 patients, was found a high correlation between the variables using the Pearson correlation coefficient with a value of 0.82. Conclusions: There is a high correlation between stages of dental maturation and stages of carpal maturation.