CALCIFICATION OF THE MANDIBULAR THIRD MOLAR AND ITS RELATION TO SKELETAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IN CHILDREN1

Abstract

Whereas theoretically it may be expected that an intimate relationship exists in the physical maturation of various tissue systems and that this relationship is reflected by the different maturity indicators, the correlation between dental development and growth of the body as-a whole is claimed to be low (i, 8). Yet Talmers (9) has demonstrated that children with late emergence of permanent teeth were usually delayed in both height and weight gain when appraised by referring to the Fels norms, and that children with early eruption of teeth were advanced in their physical growth. The asso-