Ghulam Rasool, Umar Hussain, Syed Suleman Shah.
Evaluation of the skeletal maturation using lower canine mineralization.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;34(4):629-34.

Successful orthodontics diagnosis, treatment planning and clinical procedures require a thorough understanding of growth and development. Prior knowledge to quantify the growth remaining would be extremely useful for predicting treatment results. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dental age based on the calcification stages of the mandibular canine and skeletal maturity stages using cervical vertebral maturation among Peshawar population and to determine the clinical value of the mandibular canine as a growth evaluation index. Panoramic and lateral cephalograoms of 100 patients from the department of orthodontics Khyber College of Dentistry were used to determine the dental calcification and cervical vertebral maturation(CVM) stages by two postgraduate trainees. Dental calcificationof mandibular canine was determined according to Demirjin et al and CVM staging was done according to Baccetti et al. The spearman rank correlation was determined between CVM and dental calcification stages. The highest correlation were among the CS1 and stage E(100%), CS2 and stage F (75%), CS3 and stage G (36%), and CS4 and stage H(51%). The correlation between CVM and dental calcification were highly significant ( r=0.871 p=0.000).

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