Browsing by Subject "Dental age"
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A Comparison of the dental age estimation methods of Phillips and Proffit in a sample of South African children at the Tygerberg Dental Faculty
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)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: ... -
Interceptive orthodontic treatment need among children attending dental clinics in the Tygerberg sub-district
(2013)Background In the Western-Cape province, orthodontic treatment provided to government patients is limited to tertiary hospitals such as the Tygerberg Oral Health Centre (TOHC). This results in growing waiting lists which ...