Crossner C G, Mansfeld L
Swed Dent J. 1983;7(1):1-10.
Adoption and immigration have brought about a considerable number of non-European children living in Sweden. Frequently the date of birth and age of the child are estimates of some uncertainty. In order to find out whether dental age could be useful in these cases a determination of dental age, according to methods described by Gustafson & Koch (1974) and by Liliequist & Lundberg (1971) was carried out in 44 non-European adoptive children, 23 with certain and 21 with uncertain date of birth. The results showed good agreement between the two methods and for children whose date of birth was certain, dental age determination was reliable, regardless of sex and race. For almost half of the children of uncertain age, however, dental age differed by a year or more. This may be seen as evidence of the difficulty in estimating the correct age in the native country and to asses the correctness of this estimate at the routine medical checks at present carried out upon arrival in Sweden. It can be concluded that in order to assign a reliable year of birth all adoptive or immigrant children whose age is at all uncertain should also be subjected to adequate odontological age determination.
收养和移民使得大量非欧洲儿童生活在瑞典。通常，孩子的出生日期和年龄只是一些存在一定不确定性的估计值。为了弄清楚在这些情况下牙齿年龄是否有用，根据古斯塔夫松和科赫（1974年）以及利利奎斯特和伦德伯格（1971年）所描述的方法，对44名非欧洲领养儿童进行了牙齿年龄测定，其中23名儿童出生日期确定，21名儿童出生日期不确定。结果表明这两种方法之间具有良好的一致性，对于出生日期确定的儿童，无论性别和种族，牙齿年龄测定都是可靠的。然而，对于近一半年龄不确定的儿童，牙齿年龄相差一岁或更多。这可以被视为在原籍国估计正确年龄存在困难的证据，也表明在目前抵达瑞典时进行的常规体检中评估这一估计的正确性存在困难。可以得出结论，为了确定可靠的出生年份，所有年龄存在任何不确定性的领养儿童或移民儿童都应接受充分的牙齿年龄测定。
