Indicadores de maduración esquelética y dental en pacientes de ortodoncia con menarquía

the aim of present paper was to determine according menarche the bone age, skeletal maturation stages, maturation stage of cervical vertebrae and the stages of calcification of canine and the second left mandibular premolars. a descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in 30 female patients with menarche admitted in the orthodontics clinic of the stomatology faculty of la habana from april, 2004 to september, 2006. each patient undergoes a lateral teleradiography of skull, radiography of the left hand and a panoramic of periapical radiography of the left mandibular hemiarcade. in each case the taner-whitehouse 2 (tw2), grave and brown, hassel and farman and demirjian methods were assessed. following variables were studied: age at menarche appearance, bone age, chronologic age, skeletal maturation stages, the maturation stages of cervical vertebrae, calcification stages of the canine and the second left mandibular premolar. the age mean of the menarche's appearance in our sample was of 12.00 years with a sd of 1.00 year. means of bone age were higher than those of chronologic age in all age groups. the 30 study patients were in skeletal maturation stages higher then 4, in maturation stages of cervical vertebrae higher than 1, in h stage of calcification of left mandibular canine and in stages higher than e for the second left mandibular premolar. in all determined methods most of patients with menarche were in more advances maturation stages.