Employing the London Atlas in the age estimation of a select South African population

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2022

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Dental age estimation in the living and deceased is a fundamental aspect of forensic sciences, civil cases, medico-legal proceedings and clinical dentistry. Accordingly, this study aimed to validate the accuracy and reproducibility of the London Atlas in a select South African sample of KwaZulu-Natal. In this cross-sectional study, 760 digital panoramic radiographs (n = 760) aged between 5.00 and 23.99 years were retrospectively reviewed through consecutive sampling. Each radiograph was assessed and assigned a dental age in accordance with the London Atlas of Human Tooth Development and Eruption by AlQahtani et al. (2010).

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Forensic odontology, Panoramic radiographs, Dentistry, Forensic sciences, South Africa

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Ishwarkumar, S. et al. (2022). Employing the London atlas in the age estimation of a select South African population. Dentistry Journal, 10(9), 171. https://doi.org/10.3390/dj10090171

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https://doi.org/10.3390/dj10090171
 http://hdl.handle.net/10566/8027

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