Influence of nutritional state on radiographic variables in upper canine teeth.

Permanent upper canine tooth impaction is related to both genetic causes and nutritional and local causes. Based on radiographic studies of children, Haavikko, 1974, calculated the median of the degree of calcification for each tooth according to age. The aim of our study was to establish associations between certain radiographic variables with respect to upper canine tooth buds and nutritional state in a population of schoolchildren.