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Dental Age Estimation of Non-Adults. A Review of Methods and Principles

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Dental Anthropology

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Tooth formation is widely used as a growth marker, allowing assessments and comparisons between individuals and populations in dentistry, pediatrics and anthropology. Human ecology, archeology, and forensic sciences also rely on standards of dental formation. Of all the growth systems tooth formation has the highest time stability and as such provides the most accurate way of calibrating growth and development. Dental growth standards define which stages of tooth formation occur on average when; for example the age at which teeth begin to mineralise and when they are fully mineralised. Age standards that document the sequence and timing of events during somatic and dental growth are a powerful screening device to (1) assess the maturation level of an individual, (2) assess the ecological situation of a population, (3) plan for medical interception in the case of abnormal development, (4) measure the response to treatment of abnormal growth, and (5) estimate age at death of an immature skeleton or corpse. In addition, investigations of the control systems and dynamics of tooth formation lead to a better understanding of the biology of growth in general.

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  1. Department of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

    Kurt W. Alt

  2. Department of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Friedrich W. Rösing

  3. Department of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Maria Teschler-Nicola

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Liversidge, H.M., Herdeg, B., Rösing, F.W. (1998). Dental Age Estimation of Non-Adults. A Review of Methods and Principles. In: Alt, K.W., Rösing, F.W., Teschler-Nicola, M. (eds) Dental Anthropology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7496-8_21

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