Several methods to estimate dental age using radiographs have been developed worldwide. However, most of these methods were designed with a focus on children from other countries (especially from high-income countries). Studies applying these methods to Brazilian children are usually found in the literature, but without knowledge if they were adequate to be applied to Brazilian children or not.

A recently published systematic review and meta-analysis in the Dentomaxillofacial Radiology tried to fill this gap in the literature. The study compared the estimated age to the chronological age, showing that most age estimation methods achieved optimal performance in Brazilian children. The most suitable method was the one proposed by Willem’s.

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