Dental age estimation of Malaysian Indian children and adolescents : applicability of Chaillet and Demirjian's modified method using artificial neural network

BACKGROUND: Recognising the importance of dental age (DA) estimation in forensic investigations, a variety of methods abound in the literature due to population-specific attributes. A reference eight-tooth method developed by Chaillet and Demirjian estimated the DA of children and adolescents.

AIM: This study aims to investigate the applicability of Chaillet and Demirjian's method among Malaysian Indians aged 5.00-17.99 years.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Dental panoramic tomographs of Malaysian Indians aged 5.00-17.99 years were statistically analysed using paired t-test and artificial neural networks multilayer perceptron (ANN-MLP).

RESULTS: A total of 1015 dental panoramic tomographs were analysed. Paired t-test analysis against the reference dental maturity scores revealed underestimation of DA in boys of 1.68 years and girls of 2.56 years indicating inaccurate age estimation. A population-specific prediction model with a new set of dental maturity scores was established on Chaillet and Demirjian's scores using ANN-MLP. The new dental maturity scores showed accurate estimation of DA with differences between CA and DA being 12 and 25 days for boys and girls, respectively. Furthermore, a new DA prediction formula was developed using regression analysis following the establishment of new dental scores based on ANN-MLP.

CONCLUSION: A novel Malaysian Indian-specific prediction model that demonstrated accurate DA estimation was established.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Annals of human biology - 49(2022), 3-4 vom: 23. Juni, Seite 192-199

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bunyarit, Safar Sumit [VerfasserIn]
Nambiar, Phrabhakaran [VerfasserIn]
Naidu, Murali [VerfasserIn]
Asif, Muhammad Khan [VerfasserIn]
Poh, Rozaida Yuen Ying [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Artificial neural network
Dental age estimation
Dental panoramic tomographs
Journal Article
Malaysian Indians

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Date Completed 04.10.2022

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/03014460.2022.2105396

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345162048