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Dental Age Difference in Children with ADHD

  • Puneet Wadhwa1
  • Qingzhao Yu2
  • Han Zhu3
  • Janice A. Townsend4,*,

1Private practice Los Angeles, CA

2Department of Biostatistics Louisiana State University Health Sciences School of Public Health, New Orleans, Louisiana

3Biostatistician at Biostatistics, Austin, Texas

4Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry, New Orleans, Louisiana

DOI: 10.17796/1053-4628-42.3.7 Vol.42,Issue 3,May 2018 pp.208-211

Published: 01 May 2018

*Corresponding Author(s): Janice A. Townsend E-mail: jtown2@lsuhsc.edu

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if changes in dental development are associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or ADHD medications. Study Design: This retrospective chart review evaluated the dental age of 128 patients between 6 and 16 years of age using the Demirjian method from the following two groups a) children with ADHD b) unaffected children. The ADHD group was further stratified into four groups according to the medication type. The impact of ADHD on dental age difference (the difference between dental age and chronologic age) was analyzed using T-test and the association between medication type and dental age difference was analyzed through one way ANOVA. Results: The mean difference between estimated dental age and chronologic age (dental age difference) for all subjects was 0.80 years. There was no significant dental age difference in subjects with ADHD and the control group (0.78±1.28vs. 0.84 ±1.09 years respectively; P=0.75) and there was no significant difference in dental age difference and type of medication (P=0.84). Conclusion: No significant difference was found between children with ADHD and unaffected children with respect to dental age difference. No significant differences were found in dental age difference in the four medication groups.

Keywords

ADHD, dental age

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Puneet Wadhwa,Qingzhao Yu,Han Zhu,Janice A. Townsend. Dental Age Difference in Children with ADHD. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2018. 42(3);208-211.

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