Koshy S, Tandon S
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, College of Dental Surgery, Manipal Academy, India.
Forensic Sci Int. 1998 Jun 8;94(1-2):73-85. doi: 10.1016/s0379-0738(98)00034-6.
The paper concerns the testing of Demirjian's method of age assessment in South Indian children. Since previous studies have shown the inapplicability of Demirjian's method on other populations, an attempt to compile a maturity standard for South Indian children was made. An additional independent indicator of age was employed, namely the skeletal age. The material was 184 South Indian children aged 5 to 15 years and an additional 34 children as the test sample. It was found that Demirjian's method gave an overestimation of 3.04 and 2.82 years in males and females, respectively. The skeletal age was found to differ from the dental and chronologic age. It may be concluded that the accuracy of age estimation based on Demirjian's method is not applicable for the South Indian children. For the population to be tested, it is imperative that individual assessment parameters need to be put forward because of wide ethnic differences.
本文涉及对南印度儿童使用德米尔坚年龄评估方法的测试。由于先前的研究表明德米尔坚方法不适用于其他人群，因此尝试为南印度儿童编制一个成熟度标准。采用了一个额外的独立年龄指标，即骨骼年龄。研究材料为184名年龄在5至15岁的南印度儿童，另有34名儿童作为测试样本。结果发现，德米尔坚方法在男性和女性中分别高估了3.04岁和2.82岁。研究发现骨骼年龄与牙齿年龄和实际年龄不同。可以得出结论，基于德米尔坚方法的年龄估计准确性不适用于南印度儿童。对于要测试的人群，由于种族差异较大，必须提出个体评估参数。
