Table 3: Gender-wise analysis of means between Haavikko's, Willems and Demirjian's methods of dental age estimation with chronologic age
Mean | Std. deviation | Mean difference | Standard error | Paired t-test p-value | Pearson's correlation coefficient | ||||||||||||
r | p-value | ||||||||||||||||
Males | Chronological age | 12.27 | 1.70 | –1.78 | 0.14 | 0.001* | 0.857 | 0.001* | |||||||||
Haavikko's method | 10.49 | 0.96 | |||||||||||||||
Chronological age | 12.27 | 1.70 | 0.53 | 0.10 | 0.001* | 0.917 | 0.001* | ||||||||||
Demirjian's method | 12.80 | 1.79 | |||||||||||||||
Chronological age | 12.27 | 1.70 | –0.25 | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.617 | 0.001* | ||||||||||
Willems method | 12.01 | 1.91 | |||||||||||||||
Females | Chronological age | 12.26 | 1.69 | –2.12 | 0.19 | 0.001* | 0.574 | 0.001* | |||||||||
Haavikko's method | 10.14 | 1.09 | |||||||||||||||
Chronological age | 12.26 | 1.69 | 0.57 | 0.14 | 0.001* | 0.840 | 0.001* | ||||||||||
Demirjian's method | 12.84 | 1.84 | |||||||||||||||
Chronological age | 12.26 | 1.69 | –0.15 | 0.12 | 0.22 | 0.862 | 0.001* | ||||||||||
Willems method | 12.11 | 1.71 |
*Highly significant