A Comparison of the dental age estimation methods of Phillips and Proffit in a sample of South African children at the Tygerberg Dental Faculty

Magister Scientiae Dentium - MSc(Dent) === Background: Dental age is an indicator of the physiological maturity of growing children. Different methods for estimating the dental age in comparison to the chronological age were proposed in the literature. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare...

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Main Author: Elgamri, Alya Isam Eldin Gafar
Other Authors: Mohamed, Nadia
Language:en
Published: University of the Western Cape 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5036