Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Pages: 463-470

Journal: Rechtsmedizin

Volume number: 29

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0937-9819

eISSN: 1434-5196

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-019-00345-4

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
Dental methods are components of the recommendations by the Study Group on Forensic Age Diagnostics of the German Association of Forensic Medicine for age assessment in the living. Once tooth development has been completed, degenerative tooth features can be assessed. A feature suitable for age diagnosis is the secondary dentin formation of odontoblasts in the pulp cavity and the associated decrease in pulp volume. Olze et al. (2012) presented a staging system for the assessment of secondary dentin formation in orthopantomograms for age assessment of living persons based on the radiographic reduction of the pulp cavity in mandibular premolars. For the present study, the applicability of this staging system was examined on a larger collective with a larger age range. A total of 2346 radiographic images from 1167 female and 1179 male subjects aged 15-70 years were evaluated. For each stage the minimum age, the maximum age, the mean with standard deviation, the median and the lower and the upper quartiles were determined. Within the sample, all examined men in stage 3 were older than 18 years. The approach of this easy to use staging system is to be welcomed for practical use; however, the exact assignment of the crown equator was challenging and attention must be paid to the necessary quality of the imaging.

Harvard Citation style: Timme, M., Timme, W., Olze, A., Schulz, R., Pfeiffer, H., Dettmeyer, R., et al. (2019) Evaluation of secondary dentin formation in the pulp cavity of mandibular premolars in orthopantomograms for age assessment in living persons, Rechtsmedizin, 29(6), pp. 463-470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-019-00345-4

APA Citation style: Timme, M., Timme, W., Olze, A., Schulz, R., Pfeiffer, H., Dettmeyer, R., & Schmeling, A. (2019). Evaluation of secondary dentin formation in the pulp cavity of mandibular premolars in orthopantomograms for age assessment in living persons. Rechtsmedizin. 29(6), 463-470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-019-00345-4