Correlation between Salivary Levels of IGF-1, IGFBP-3, IGF-1/IGFBP3 Ratio with Skeletal Maturity Using Hand-Wrist Radiographs

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 6; p. 3723
• Main Authors: Almalki, Abdullah, Thomas, Julie Toby, Khan, Abdul Rehman Ahmed, Almulhim, Basim, Alassaf, Abdullah, Alghamdi, Sara Ayid, Joseph, Betsy, Alqerban, Ali, Alotaibi, Saud
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 21.03.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Biomarkers; Child; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dentistry; Enzymes; Female; Growth hormones; Humans; Insulin; Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3; Insulin-Like Growth Factor I - metabolism; Insulin-like growth factors; Investigations; Kruskal-Wallis test; Male; Orthodontics; Radiography; Sample size; Vertebrae; Wrist; Young Adult; Saudi Arabia; United States > US; orthodontics; insulin-like growth factor; hand wrist radiographs; salivary diagnostics; skeletal maturity; insulin-like growth factor binding protein

Objective: The relevance of growth determination in orthodontics is driving the search for the most precise and least invasive way of tracking the pubertal growth spurt. Our aim was to explore whether minimally invasive salivary estimation of biomarkers Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and Insulin...