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The developmental stages of the middle phalanx of the third finger (MP3): a sole indicator in assessing the skeletal maturity?

S. Madhu¹
Amitha M. Hegde¹
A.K. Munshi¹

¹Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Children Dentistry, ABSMIDS, Mangalore

DOI: 10.17796/jcpd.27.2.qtj75rg3714l5543 Vol.27,Issue 2,April 2003 pp.149-156

Published: 01 April 2003

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Assessment of skeletal maturity is an integral part of interceptive diagnosis and treatment planning. The present day methods of skeletal maturity assessment like the hand-wrist radiographs or cervical vertebrae radiographs are expensive, require elaborate equipment and accounts for high radiation exposure, especially for growing children. The present study was thus undertaken to provide a simple and practical method of skeletal maturity assessment using the developmental stages of the middle phalanx of the third finger (MP3) as seen on an IOPA film taken using a standard dental x-ray machine.The results of the study showed that this simple method was highly reliable and could be used as an alternative method to assess the skeletal maturity of growing children.

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S. Madhu,Amitha M. Hegde,A.K. Munshi. The developmental stages of the middle phalanx of the third finger (MP3): a sole indicator in assessing the skeletal maturity?. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2003. 27(2);149-156.

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