Abstract
T he role of dental age as an indicator of physical development remains controversial. Several investigators found no significant relationship between dental development and other maturity indicators and suggested that the mechanisms controlling dental development are independent of somatic and sexual maturity.' Others, however, claim that canine calcification could serve as a useful tool for evaluating skeletal maturation and somatic maturity.2 Boys with a constitutional delay in growth and puberty or with growth hor-
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