Age estimation in children by measurement of open apices in teeth: a European formula
- 5 June 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International journal of legal medicine
- Vol. 121 (6), 449-453
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-007-0179-1
Abstract
The aim of the present paper was to improve and expand research with a larger number of children from various European countries and to provide a common formula useful for all these countries. Orthopantomographs taken from 2,652 European Caucasian children (1,382 boys, 1,270 girls) aged between 4 and 16 years were analyzed. The children came from Croatia, Germany, Kosovo, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. Following the pilot study, subjects’ age was modeled as a function of gender (g), morphological variables (predictors) × 5(second premolar), s (sum of normalized open apices) N 0, and the first-order interaction between s and N 0. The results showed that all these variables contributed significantly to the fit, so that all were included in the regression model, yielding the following linear regression formula: Age = 8.387 + 0.282 g − 1.692 × 5 + 0.835 N 0 − 0.116 s − 0.139 s × N 0, where g is a variable, 1 for males and 0 for females. The equation explained 86.1% (R 2 = 0.861) of total deviance. The median of the residuals (=observed age minus predicted age) was −0.114 years, with (RefB.2) interquartile range = 1.22 years.Keywords
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