Table 1: Definition of terms used in this review. The most important terms to be differentiated are the DTDS - the Demirjian Tooth Development Stages and the DGTM - the mathematical integration of the summary statistics of each of the TDS present in a single individual.
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Term(s) |
Definition |
Explanatory note |
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Age at Assessment (AaA)
Demirjian Tooth Development Stages (DTDS)
Demirjian, Goldstein, and Tanner Method (DGTM)
Demirjian ‘method’ |
These are the stages defined by Arto Demirjian in 1973 [2].
This is the process of Mathematical Integration used to create the percentile curves from which the Dental Age (DA) is derived.
The term used loosely in the dental and forensic literature to refer to the process combining the DTDS and the DGTM.
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There is poor separation of the terminology for the Demirjian TDS and the Mathematical Integration of the data from the TDS to derive the percentile curves.
In this review these will now be differentiated by using DTDS when referring to the Tooth Development Stages.
This term is (or should be) redundant as it leads to confusion about the processes that are involved in estimating the DA of a single subject. |