“…In this study, females were advanced in skeletal maturation than males in all the age groups. This is supported by Hagg and Taranger [18], Koshy and Tandon [25], Prabhakar et al [29], Bala M et al [4], Hunter [21], Fishman [11][12][13], Joshi et al [23], and Bhatia et al [5]. The mean bone age was found to be constantly lower than the mean CA at all skeletal maturity stages ( Table 2).…”