Functional health trajectories in adulthood are shaped by childhood health and
socioeconomic circumstances; unhealthy and socioeconomically disadvantaged children …

Age estimation of living individuals has become a crucial part of the forensic practice,
especially due to the global increase in cross-border migration. The low rate of birth …

Developmental Juvenile Osteology was created as a core reference text to document the
development of the entire human skeleton from early embryonic life to adulthood. In the …

We recruited 1296 mothers in their first trimester from the Affiliated Obstetrics and
Gynecology Hospital of Nanjing Medical University between May 2014 and September 2015 …

Background. Up-to-date population specific standards on the timing and sequence of
emergence of the permanent teeth are essential in planning medical care for children. To …

Objective: To investigate the main dental caries life course determinants and predictors of
dental caries at age 12. Methods: This study was nested in a population‐based birth cohort …

Introduction Estimating orthodontic treatment need in the permanent dentition using
information from the deciduous-dentition malocclusion may assist in defining the time for …

Lu HX, Wong MCM, Lo ECM, McGrath C. Trends in oral health from childhood to early
adulthood: a life course approach. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2011; 39: 352–360.© …

Introduction Little is known about the influence of biological characteristics on the
occurrence of malocclusion. This study aimed to investigate the association between …

Birth cohorts are those among observational studies that provide understanding of the
natural history and causality of diseases since early in life. Discussions during an …