ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2019
Age estimation by measuring open apices in teeth: a new formula for two samples of South African black and white children.
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- A systematic overview of dental methods for age assessment in living individuals: from traditional to artificial intelligence-based approaches.International journal of legal medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Assessing the accuracy of the third molar eruption as an indicator of adulthood: findings from a black South African sample using the Gambier method.International journal of legal medicine · 2025Article
- The feasibility of the adult age estimation 3D-CBCT method on ancient human remains.The Journal of forensic odonto-stomatology · 2024Article
- Comparing tooth development timing between ethnic groups, excluding nutritional and environmental influences.International journal of legal medicine · 2024Article
- Age estimation of children based on open apex measurement in the developing permanent dentition: an Egyptian formula.Clinical oral investigations · 2023Article
- Validation of the Italian, European, North German, Malaysian, and South African black formulas on Cameriere method using panoramic radiographs in Kenyan children.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
- The Application of the Cameriere's Methodologies for Dental Age Estimation in a Select KwaZulu-Natal Population of South Africa.Dentistry journal · 2022Article
- Age Assessment in Children and Adolescents by Measuring the Open Apices in Teeth: A New Sardinian Formula.Dentistry journal · 2022Article
- Testing the Olze and Timme Methods for Dental Age Estimation in Radiographs of Brazilian Subadults and Adults.Acta stomatologica Croatica · 2021Article
- Age Estimation Using the Cameriere Methods of Open Apices: A Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Cameriere and Willems age estimation methods in panoramic radiographs of Brazilian children.The Journal of forensic odonto-stomatology · 2020Article
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Abstract
In this cross-sectional study, the accuracy of Cameriere's European formula was tested and a new specific model was developed for two samples of black and white South African children with known age and sex. For these purposes, 970 children of black South African ethnicity (girls 491, boys 479) and 974 with European ethnicity, living in South Africa (girls 493, boys 481), were retrospectively analyzed. The application of the European formula showed that there is a trend in the error estimates: the ages of the younger children are overestimated and those of the older children are underestimated, in both white and black children. A new model, based on the relationship between the apical width and the tooth length (maturity index) of the seven permanent mandibular teeth, was therefore constructed. The new developed equation for the South African population was able to explain 76% of total variance in white girls and 80% in white boys' subgroup. On the other side, the model explained 76% of total variance in black girls and 78% in the black boys' subgroup. The mean absolute error of the residuals (residuals = predicted age minus observed age) ranged from 0.718 to 0.769 years, with the interquartile range (IQR
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