A device to predict lower third molar eruption

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 598-603

  Ventä, Irja ^a,b   Murtomaa, Heikki ^a   Ylipaavalniemi, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CEPHALOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH ERUPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BAYES THEOREM; CEPHALOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MOLAR; MOLAR, THIRD; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH ERUPTION; TOOTH, IMPACTED; TOOTH, UNERUPTED;

EID: 0031304538     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(97)90358-9     Document Type: Article

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