Estimación de la edad dental en adultos mediante la relación área pulpa/diente en caninos superiores mediante radiografias periapicales utilizando el método de Cameriere, en una muestra paraguaya.

Abstract

Objective: To estimate dental age in adults of Paraguayan nationality by analyzing the ratio of pulp/tooth area of upper canines using digital periapical radiographs (DRV) using the Cameriere method. Materials and methods: The sample was composed of 82 digital periapical radiographs, of which 34 were male and 48 were female, all of Paraguayan nationality and aged between 18 and 65 years. Data on sex and age of the selected DPOs (pulp-tooth ratio) were recorded in a blinded manner. Simple linear regression models were developed for age estimation.  Results: The results show a total discrepancy of 28.19 (100%), of which 12.7 (45%) were from the male population and 15.49 (54.9%) were from the female population. The age estimation does not vary by sex, as observed in the results where it shows that in both sexes, the left upper canines (D23) are respectively the teeth able to provide a better age estimation, out of 12 male samples. Of 21 female samples, 13 (61.9%) correspond to D23. It is concluded that the evidence that the largest discrepancy observed in this study was 5.82 in a female sample, being considered a success, since a useful discrepancy is estimated within the range of 5 and acceptable when it is equal to or less than 10 in the field of Forensic Dentistry.