The article describes skeletal maturation applied in medicine to estimate biological development of a human being. The method, devised by Baccetti and co-workers (CVM method – Cervical Vertebral Maturation) to determine the moment of pubertal growth basing on a lateral cephalogram, was presented. On the basis of the existing method, a program which determines a CVM stage basing on characteristic points, was written. The list of the results repeatability in traditional assessment as well as with the use of the program is presented in the article.
This article describes methods used in estimating skeletal age based both on the evaluation of skeletal maturation of the palm and the wrist (Greulich and Pyle’s atlas method) and the Cervical Vertebral Maturation method (CVM). The method of evaluating the skeletal age based on the measurement of cervical vertebrae with equations introduced by A. Machorowska-Pieniążek is also mentioned. The article shows results obtained by computer analysis of the age of cervical vertebrae compared to the results gained from the implemented equations provided by A. Machorowska-Pieniążek and the results obtained from the atlas method.
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