Regular monitoring of general health indicators such as height, weight, and dental development might help in targeting support programmes in developing countries.
To make an age estimate, Senn analyzes dental development and inputs data into a program he helped develop called UT-AGE, along with information on the subject's sex and race.
Therefore, regular monitoring of growth and dental development might be helpful for targeting support programmes in developing countries.
The FR-2 has been developed to eliminate functional disorders that can interfere with normal skeletal and dental development [6].
In the early part of his career he collaborated with Jim Tanner, one of the world's leading experts on child growth, on a set of clinical standards for children's growth, skeletal maturity and dental development that are still in use.
Whether GH deficiency directly influences dental development and tooth eruption is still under debate.
Additionally, it has been observed that patients with palatally ectopic canines have a delayed dental development.
Ageing of sub-adults was basically done by means of the dental development and eruption [29, 30], as well as the epiphyseal fusion [31].
The human skeleton is changing a lot during childhood, i.e. bone growth, ossification of epiphyses and of course the dental development.
The epiphyseal fusion [31] and dental development [29] placed the individual in the late-juvenile to early-adult category in compliance with the transition analysis based age estimation.
As indicated, dental development of children with GHD is characteristically less affected than either somatic growth or skeletal maturation [16, 18].
