ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2020
Cameriere's third molar maturity index in assessing age of majority: a study of a French sample.
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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
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- Accuracy of different dental age estimation methods for determining the legal majority of 18 years in the Turkish population.Clinical oral investigations · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the effect of impaction on the mineralization of mandibular third molars and forensic age estimation in a sample of south Indian children.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
- Demirjian and Cameriere methods for age estimation in a Spanish sample of 1386 living subjects.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Legal age determined by a new threshold value of third molar maturity index in subjects with impacted mandibular third molars: An orthopantomographic study in south Indian adolescents.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
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- Study of the ethnicity's influence on the third molar maturity index (IInternational journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
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- Minor migrants' age estimation: Comparison of two dental methods.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2021Article
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Abstract
Forensic age estimation is a challenging field in forensic sciences because of the increase of migratory flows. Medicolegal age assessment is a key point because it has many implications for authorities. Dental age estimation is an essential part of the global age assessment. The aim of this study was to evaluate and test the accuracy of Cameriere's cutoff values of the third molar maturity index (I3M) in assessing legal adult age of 18 years in a French population. The sample was constituted of 431 orthopantomograms performed between January 2014 and August 2017 on patients aged between 14 and 22 years. The reproducibility and repeatability of the method were high. Age distribution gradually decreases as I3M increases in both sexes. 0.08 seemed to be the best I3M cutoff. For females, the sensitivity and specificity of the test were 74.51% and 88.23%, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity for males were 92.19% and 88.35%, respectively. The accuracies were 80.74% for female, 90.57% for male. Estimated post-test probabilities were 0.879 for female and 0.899 for male. To conclude, the specific cutoff value of I3M ˂ 0.08 may be a useful additional tool in discriminating adults and minors in French population.
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