Medicina, Vol. 58 No. 1, 2022.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2022_271154
Dental age assessment methods in adult dentitions
Sara Huskić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7446-1502
; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Fakultet dentalne medicine, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Dražen Cuculić
; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet, Zavod za sudsku medicinu i kriminalistiku, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Age estimation presents one of the main challenges in forensic science. It is used in identification of unknown bodies in forensics and archeology, as well as estimating the age in legal and criminal cases. Dental tissues are used in the estimation because of their resistant inorganic structure. Age estimation is much more challenging in adults because it is based on analysing the degenerative changes that occur as a part of the ageing process and that can be very individual. Methods include: morphological, radiological, biochemical and molecular methods. The efficacy of methods was shown to be variable for various ethnic and age groups, and not every method is applicable for every type of tooth. One of the main faults of many methods is the requirement of sophisticated laboratory equipment and knowledge as well as the time consuming procedures needed to accomplish the method. Finding a universal and standardised method for age estimation in adults is one of the main goals of forensic dentistry today.
Ključne riječi
adult; dental cementum; dentin; forensic dentistry; methods
Hrčak ID:
271154
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Datum izdavanja:
1.3.2022.
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