Karies, Füllungen und fehlende Zähne auf Panoramaschichtaufnahmen zur Altersschätzung Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener
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Karies, Füllungen und fehlende Zähne auf Panoramaschichtaufnahmen zur Altersschätzung Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener : prädiktive Werte für die Bestimmung des vollendeten 18. Lebensjahres. / Friedrich, Reinhard E; v Maydell, Ljuba A; Ulbricht, Carsten; Scheuer, Hanna A.
In: Arch Kriminol, Vol. 216, No. 5-6, 2006, p. 129-49.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Karies, Füllungen und fehlende Zähne auf Panoramaschichtaufnahmen zur Altersschätzung Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener
T2 - prädiktive Werte für die Bestimmung des vollendeten 18. Lebensjahres
AU - Friedrich, Reinhard E
AU - v Maydell, Ljuba A
AU - Ulbricht, Carsten
AU - Scheuer, Hanna A
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - UNLABELLED: The human teeth are a valuable source of information concerning identification and age calculation in forensic sciences. Dental treatment often causes permanent alteration of the teeth, which is visible on radiographs. The correlation of decayed, missing or filled teeth and chronological age has not yet been used for determining the accomplished 18th year of life in teenagers and young adults, e. g. for legal and anthropological purposes. The aim of this study was to determine whether the evaluation of these findings on radiographs correlates with the chronological age in teenagers and young adults.MATERIAL AND METHODS: The dental X-rays (orthopantomograms, OPG) of 1053 outpatients (age: 14 to 24 years) were evaluated. The values "decayed", "missing", or "filled" were recorded for each tooth present. The data were then calculated using statistical tools.RESULTS: The correlation between the number of missing teeth and the chronological age is low. However, the positive predictive value of determining the age of 18 years for certain types of teeth proved to be very high, even up to 100 %. Further, high numbers of filled teeth gave reasonable positive predictive values for an age of 18 years. The number of decayed teeth did not correlate with age.DISCUSSION: This study provides for the first time predictive values for the estimation whether a person is 18 years of age, based on the evaluation of decayed, missing or filled teeth on OPGs only. Whereas the number of patients with such findings is generally low in this age group, some of the positive findings can be used for age estimation as an adjunct to other sources of age calculation. The sole application of these items is not recommended, as sanitary conditions of the teeth depend on both social and individual circumstances. Therefore, the calculated values also reflect the culture of the sample studied. Finally, they are time-dependent and have to be compared to data from other populations. These results have some bearing on the field of forensic odontology.
AB - UNLABELLED: The human teeth are a valuable source of information concerning identification and age calculation in forensic sciences. Dental treatment often causes permanent alteration of the teeth, which is visible on radiographs. The correlation of decayed, missing or filled teeth and chronological age has not yet been used for determining the accomplished 18th year of life in teenagers and young adults, e. g. for legal and anthropological purposes. The aim of this study was to determine whether the evaluation of these findings on radiographs correlates with the chronological age in teenagers and young adults.MATERIAL AND METHODS: The dental X-rays (orthopantomograms, OPG) of 1053 outpatients (age: 14 to 24 years) were evaluated. The values "decayed", "missing", or "filled" were recorded for each tooth present. The data were then calculated using statistical tools.RESULTS: The correlation between the number of missing teeth and the chronological age is low. However, the positive predictive value of determining the age of 18 years for certain types of teeth proved to be very high, even up to 100 %. Further, high numbers of filled teeth gave reasonable positive predictive values for an age of 18 years. The number of decayed teeth did not correlate with age.DISCUSSION: This study provides for the first time predictive values for the estimation whether a person is 18 years of age, based on the evaluation of decayed, missing or filled teeth on OPGs only. Whereas the number of patients with such findings is generally low in this age group, some of the positive findings can be used for age estimation as an adjunct to other sources of age calculation. The sole application of these items is not recommended, as sanitary conditions of the teeth depend on both social and individual circumstances. Therefore, the calculated values also reflect the culture of the sample studied. Finally, they are time-dependent and have to be compared to data from other populations. These results have some bearing on the field of forensic odontology.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Age Determination by Teeth
KW - Anodontia
KW - DMF Index
KW - Dental Caries
KW - Dental Restoration, Permanent
KW - Female
KW - Forensic Dentistry
KW - Germany
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Prevalence
KW - Radiography, Panoramic
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Sensitivity and Specificity
KW - Statistics as Topic
KW - Tooth Extraction
KW - Tooth Loss
M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
C2 - 16430051
VL - 216
SP - 129
EP - 149
JO - Arch Kriminol
JF - Arch Kriminol
SN - 0003-9225
IS - 5-6
ER -
