Short communicationAge estimation of unaccompanied minors: Part II. Dental aspects
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Wisdom tooth mineralization—ethnic differences
One question of major practical relevance to estimating age from a dental view is whether the reference data customarily used for forensic diagnosis, derived from white North Americans on the one hand and Central and Northern Europeans on the other, can also be applied to members of other ethnic groups.
To date insufficient knowledge has been obtained about how ethnic origin can influence tooth mineralization. This, however, constitutes a restraint on the reliability of age estimates and hence
Radiologically determined DMF index variations for forensic age estimation of young adults
The main criterion for dental age estimation is the evaluation of third molar mineralization. Since the development of third molars is usually completed by the age of 19 or 20 years [16], [17], [18], [19], this feature cannot be used to ascertain whether a person has attained the forensically relevant age of 21 years.
The aim of the present study [19] was to examine whether the evaluation of various roentgeno-morphologic characteristics relevant for dental age estimation of adults supplies
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