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The Demirjian versus the Willems method for dental age estimation in different populations: A meta-analysis of published studies.

Temitope Ayodeji EsanVeerasamy YengopalLynne A Schepartz
Published in: PloS one (2017)
The Willems method provides more accurate estimation of chronological age in different populations, while Demirjian's method has a broad application in terms of determining maturity scores. However, accuracy of Demirjian age estimations is confounded by population variation when converting maturity scores to dental ages. For highest accuracy of age estimation, population-specific standards, rather than a universal standard or methods developed on other populations, need to be employed.
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