ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2025
Insights into dental age estimation: introducing multiple regression data from a Black South African population on modified gustafson's criteria.
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- Assessing observer-dependent dental age estimation procedures: intra- and inter-observer reliability across four well established radiographic systems for dental analysis.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- The time frame of third molar mineralization in a northern chinese population.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Article
- 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
- Age estimation based on pulp/tooth volume ratio using CBCT: a study on mandibular canines.BMC oral health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Dental Age Estimation (DAE) is an effective instrument of the rule of law for verifying dubious age claims in living individuals. Once tooth development is complete, only degenerative dental characteristics can be used for this purpose. The influence of ethnicity on these degenerative dental characteristics has not been clarified.Degenerative changes were examined using modified Gustafson's criteria including secondary dentin formation, cementum apposition, periodontal recession and attrition using the Olze et al. (2012) staging scales. Orthopantomograms of 1882 black South Africans, consisting of 934 females and 948 males, from 12.00 to 40.96 years of chronological age were utilized. Two independent examiners performed the evaluations, with one of the two evaluating all radiographs twice.The relationship between individual characteristics and chronological age was analyzed using multiple regression analysis with chronological age as the dependent variable. The resulting R
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