Dental maturity assessment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia after cancer therapy

Forensic Science International : Synergy
Niucha P S VasconcelosRosa M E Weiler

Abstract

Dental age is largely used in both forensic studies and clinical practice. All over the world, many studies have been made to determine chronological age using dental ages of individuals, but selecting individuals with no chronic or acute sickness as the study group. Cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in children, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common type of cancer in childhood. Most of the children who survived childhood cancer experienced disturbances in dental development due to cancer therapy or to cancer itself. The aim of this study is to assess dental development in children and teenagers who had suffered from childhood leukemia and were submitted to chemotherapy isolated or associated with radiotherapy, by comparing the dental ages with those corresponding features in a healthy control group. Dental development was analyzed using panoramic radiographs of 92 children divided in two groups: 46 children between 5 and 12 years old, treated for ALL at GRAACC-IOP, UNIFESP, and as a control group, 46 healthy children treated for dental reasons at APCD, São Paulo. The dental age of the subjects was estimated using the system of Demirjian et al. [A. Demirjian, H. Goldstein, J.M. Tanner, A new ...Continue Reading

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