Validity and reliability of the Demirjian distinguish software on estimating dental age / 中国医学科学院学报

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the validity and reliability of the Demirjian distinguish software on dental age estimation.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>The dental age of 60 children were estimated with both the software three times and manual measures.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The correlation coefficients of dental age estimated by the software and by manual measure was 0.974 (female) (P > 0.1) and 0.970 (male) (P > 0.05); the coefficients of interclass correlation of each dental age estimated by the software was 0.977 (female) (P > 0.1) and 0.977 (male) (P > 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Demirjian distinguish software has high validity and reliability in estimating dental age.</p>