Validity and reliability of the Demirjian distinguish software on estimating dental age.
- Author:
Jian-lin FAN
1
;
Wen-lian ZHOU
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Adolescent; Age Determination by Teeth; methods; Child; Female; Humans; Male; Reproducibility of Results; Software
- From: Acta Academiae Medicinae Sinicae 2005;27(3):363-366
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo study the validity and reliability of the Demirjian distinguish software on dental age estimation.
METHODThe dental age of 60 children were estimated with both the software three times and manual measures.
RESULTSThe correlation coefficients of dental age estimated by the software and by manual measure was 0.974 (female) (P > 0.1) and 0.970 (male) (P > 0.05); the coefficients of interclass correlation of each dental age estimated by the software was 0.977 (female) (P > 0.1) and 0.977 (male) (P > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONDemirjian distinguish software has high validity and reliability in estimating dental age.
