The diagnostic performance of dental maturity for identification of the circumpubertal growth phases: a meta-analysis

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Table 8 Positive LHRs for maturation stages of the mandibular first premolar for diagnosis of different growth phases

Growth phase	Dental stage	Başaran et al.[23]	Chen et al.[28]	Sukhia and Fida[31]	Różyło-Kalinowska et al.[30]	Perinetti et al.[20]	Overall^a
Pre-pubertal	D	--	--	--	--	--	--
	E	104.5 (14.5-750.4)	4.6 (0.5-43.2)	11.5 (3.6-36.9)	28.5 (3.8-214.8)	39.3 (5.5-280.8)	21.5 (8.1-56.7)
	F	23.0 (10.1-52.1)	4.0 (2.3-7.0)	3.6 (2.3-5.8)	4.8 (3.0-7.4)	5.9 (2.9-11.9)	5.8 (3.5-9.7)
	G	2.5 (1.6-4.1)	1.2 (0.9-1.6)	1.2 (0.1-1.7)	2.0 (1.6-2.6)	1.5 (1.0-2.4)	1.6 (1.2- 2.2)
	H	0.0 (0.0-0.1)	0.4 (0.3-0.5)	0.3 (0.2-0.4)	0.4 (0.3-0.5)	0.2 (0.13-0.3)	0.2 (0.1-0.4)
Pubertal	D	--	--	--	--	--	--
	E	0.0 (0.0-0.3)	0.4 (0.0-4.1)	0.1 (0.0-0.4)	0.1 (0.0-0.9)	0.1 (0.0-0.5)	0.1 (0.0-0.2)
	F	0.2 (0.1-0.5)	0.4 (0.3-0.8)	0.3 (0.2-0.5)	0.6 (0.4-1.0)	0.4 (0.2-0.8)	0.4 (0.3-0.6)
	G	1.5 (0.9-2.4)	1.2 (0.9-1.5)	0.5 (0.3-0.7)	1.2 (0.9-1.5)	1.1 (0.7-1.9)	1.0 (0.9-1.2)
	H	1.5 (1.4-1.7)	1.2 (0.9-1.6)	4.0 (2.9-5.4)	1.1 (1.0-1.2)	2.0 (1.6-2.5)	0.9 (0.5-1.8)
Post-pubertal	D	--	--	--	--	--	--
	E	--	0.2 (0.0-1.5)	--	--	--	0.2 (0.0-1.5)
	F	--	0.1 (0.0-0.6)	0.2 (0.0-1.4)	0.1 (0.0-0.2)	0.1 (0.0-0.4)	0.1 (0.0-0.2)
	G	0.1 (0.0-0.3)	0.5 (0.3-0.8)	3.5 (2.7-4.6)	0.2 (0.1-0.4)	0.4 (0.2-0.8)	0.4 (0.1-1.9)
	H	2.4 (2.1-2.7)	2.3 (1.8-2.9)	0.3 (0.1-0.8)	1.9 (1.7-2.1)	3.3 (2.7-4.0)	2.2 (1.7-2.8)

Data are presented as means (95% CI). ^aNull values and values equal to zero not included. The symbol ‘--’ represents null value indicating that no cases for the given maturational stage coincided with the corresponding growth phase. Values in italics denote an overall positive LHR of 10 or more.