Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 Eur J Oral Sci 2000 Jun;108(3):184-8 Advanced dental maturity in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.Lehtinen A, Oksa T, Helenius H, Ronning O.Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Finland.The subjects of the investigation comprised 95 girls and 73 boys with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), and 102 girls and 66 boys representing healthy controls, all with a chronological age from 6.3 to 14.4 yr. The dental development was assessed from panoramic radiographs using a seven-tooth model. The radiographs were evaluated on three separate occasions with a minimum interval of one month in a randomized order, and blind with respect to absence or presence of JRA. In both JRA patients and healthy controls, dental maturity was ahead of chronological age. In addition, dental maturity was significantly advanced in JRA patients with 0.26 yr in girls and 0.28 yr in boys. It is tentatively suggested that the advanced dental development in JRA patients compared with healthy children was partly an effect of treatment with cortisone, while the influence of the disorder per se remains to be elucidated.PMID: 10872987 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 That's so interesting, because I was always told by the dentist growing up that I was " advanced " dentally; I had to have my wisdom teeth out earler than most people. On a funny side note, my cousins all lost their teeth very late, and they liked to joke that they were " dentally retarded " Elisheva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 Oh .... that was really funny : ) That's so interesting, because I was always told by the dentist growing up that I was "advanced" dentally; I had to have my wisdom teeth out earler than most people. On a funny side note, my cousins all lost their teeth very late, and they liked to joke that they were "dentally retarded"Elisheva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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