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Advanced dental maturity in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
- Source :
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European journal of oral sciences [Eur J Oral Sci] 2000 Jun; Vol. 108 (3), pp. 184-8. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- The subjects of the investigation comprised 95 girls and 73 boys with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), and 102 girls and 66 boys representing healthy controls, all with a chronological age from 6.3 to 14.4 yr. The dental development was assessed from panoramic radiographs using a seven-tooth model. The radiographs were evaluated on three separate occasions with a minimum interval of one month in a randomized order, and blind with respect to absence or presence of JRA. In both JRA patients and healthy controls, dental maturity was ahead of chronological age. In addition, dental maturity was significantly advanced in JRA patients with 0.26 yr in girls and 0.28 yr in boys. It is tentatively suggested that the advanced dental development in JRA patients compared with healthy children was partly an effect of treatment with cortisone, while the influence of the disorder per se remains to be elucidated.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Analysis of Variance
Case-Control Studies
Child
Female
Finland
Humans
Male
Observer Variation
Radiography, Bitewing
Random Allocation
Reproducibility of Results
Single-Blind Method
Statistics, Nonparametric
Arthritis, Juvenile physiopathology
Tooth growth & development
Tooth Calcification physiology
Tooth Eruption physiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0909-8836
- Volume :
- 108
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- European journal of oral sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10872987
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0722.2000.108003184.x