The Presence of a Central Papilla is Associated with Age but Not Gender

The effects of age and gender on the presence of the central papilla are unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the presence of the central papilla was related to age or gender. The presence of the central papilla was assessed by measuring the distance from the bone crest to the contact point (BC-CP) and the papillary height on standardized periapical radiographs of maxillary central incisors in 180 Taiwanese adults. We found that for adults with and those without a central papilla the mean (± standard deviation) ages were 29.1±11.7 and 44.7±12.4 years, the BC-CP distances were 5.0±0.8 and 6.4±1.3 mm, and the papillary heights were 5.0±0.8 and 3.6±0.8 mm, respectively. The BC-CP distance was positively related to age (44.6%, p＜0.05), and the papillary height was negatively related to age (41.8%, p＜0.05). However, neither the BC-CP distance nor papillary height was significantly associated with gender. After individually controlling for papillary height or BC-CP distance, age was significantly associated with papillary recession (p＜0.05); the incidence of central papillary recession increased by 1.08~1.09 times per year. The author concluded that the presence of the central papilla is significantly associated with age but not gender.

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central papilla ； age ； gender ； periapical radiography

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