ArticleJournal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP
Inter-observer agreement in the radiographic interpretation of Demirjian's developmental stages in the mandibular second and third molars - A comparative study.
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- Third molar maturity on panoramic radiographs as an indicator of the 18-year threshold: a pilot cases study.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Article
- Is chronological age predictable on panoramic images using the Demirjian method on third molars? Insights from a Turkish population-based study.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2026Article
- End-to-end vs. human-defined feature extraction: comparing deep learning approaches for age classification using mandibular third molars.The Journal of forensic odonto-stomatology · 2025Article
- An autoencoder and vision transformer based interpretability analysis on the performance differences in automated staging of second and third molars.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The success rates and outcomes of mandibular third molar coronectomy: 167 cases.Oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2024Article
- Reliability of a forensic odontology method for age-at-death estimation in adults: A Mexican case study.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: The developmental stages of the teeth in the radiographs are graded on an ordinal scale. The present study was conducted using 123 digital orthopantomograms from individuals in the age group of 5 to 22 years and to analyze and evaluate the inter-observer agreement in grading the developmental stages of second and third molars. Four observers with different levels of practical experience in age estimation participated in the study. The development stages of both the molars in the lower left quadrant (3
resultsThere was 70.0%-75.6% agreement among the observers in staging second molar and 52%-68.3% for the third molars. There was an excellent agreement ( Conclusions: In conclusion, proper training in the radiographic interpretation of developmental stages may minimize the errors during the age estimation methods.
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