Studies of the chronological course of wisdom tooth eruption in a Black African population |
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Authors: | Olze Andreas van Niekerk Piet Schulz Ronald Schmeling Andreas |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Charité– Universit?tsmedizin Berlin, Turmstrasse 21, 10559 Berlin, Germany.;2. Department of Oral Pathology and Oral Biology, University of Pretoria, P.O. Box 1266, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.;3. Institut für Rechtsmedizin, R?ntgenstrasse 23, 48149 Münster, Germany. |
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Abstract: | The importance of forensic age estimation in living subjects has grown over the last few years. In dental age estimation, tooth eruption is a parameter of developmental morphology that can be analyzed by either clinical examination or by evaluation of dental X-rays. In the present study, we determined the stage of wisdom tooth eruption in 410 male and 106 female Black South African subjects of known age (12-26 years) based on radiological evidence from 516 conventional orthopantomograms. Four eruption stages were determined (no emergence, alveolar emergence, gingival emergence, complete emergence). Statistical scores were determined for the individual stages separately for both sexes. The data presented here can be utilized for forensic estimation of the minimum and most probable ages of investigated persons. |
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Keywords: | forensic science age estimation dental age tooth eruption third molar African population |
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