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

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Table 9 Positive LHRs for maturation stages of the mandibular second 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	19.6 (9.6-39.8)	7.6 (0.9-64.1)	4.5 (2.3-8.7)	10.0 (3.5-28.8)	12.8 (4.8-34.1)	9.8 (5.1-19.0)
	F	5.5 (3.3-9.4)	2.7 (1.9-3.9)	2.2 (1.5-3.2)	2.7 (2.0-3.6)	3.3 (1.8-5.9)	2.9 (2.3-3.8)
	G	0.4 (0.2-0.9)	0.8 (0.6-1.1)	1.1 (0.7-1.5)	1.3 (1.1-1.6)	0.4 (0.3-0.6)	0.8 (0.5-1.2)
	H	0.0 (0.0-0.1)	0.3 (0.2-0.5)	0.2 (0.1-0.3)	0.2 (0.2-0.3)	0.1 (0.1-0.2)	0.1 (0.1-0.3)
Pubertal	D	--	--	--	--	--	--
	E	0.2 (0.1-0.5)	0.3 (0.0-2.2)	0.3 (0.1-0.6)	0.3 (0.1-0.9)	0.2 (0.1-0.6)	0.3 (0.2-0.4)
	F	0.9 (0.5-1.5)	0.6 (0.4-0.8)	0.6 (0.4-0.8)	1.0 (0.7-1.3)	0.6 (0.3-1.1)	0.7 (0.5-0.9)
	G	6.3 (3.5-11.3)	1.6 (1.2-2.1)	1.1 (0.8-1.6)	1.3 (1.0-1.5)	2.1 (1.5-3.0)	1.8 (1.2-2.8)
	H	1.2 (1.1-1.4)	1.0 (0.7-1.4)	2.7 (2.0-3.7)	0.9 (0.8-1.1)	1.8 (1.3-2.7)	0.8 (0.4-1.6)
Post-pubertal	D	--	--	--	--	--	--
	E	--	0.2 (0.0-1.5)	--	--	--	0.2 (0.0-1.5)
	F	--	0.3 (0.1-0.7)	0.2 (0.0-1.1)	0.1 (0.1-0.3)	0.2 (0.1-0.6)	0.2 (0.1-0.3)
	G	0.2 (0.1-0.4)	0.5 (0.3-0.9)	0.4 (0.1-1.4)	0.5 (0.4-0.7)	1.3 (0.9-1.9)	0.5 (0.3-0.9)
	H	3.1 (2.6-3.6)	3.3 (2.4-4.5)	2.7 (2.2-3.4)	2.9 (2.5-3.4)	4.5 (3.2-6.2)	3.1 (2.7-3.5)

Data are presented as means (95% CI). ^aNull values and values equal to zero not included. The symbol ‘--’ represent 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.