[Microstructure of dental cementum and individual biological age estimation].

Evaluation of annual incremental lines of dental cementum is one of potentially valuable methods for biological age estimation in forensic anthropology. The objective of this work was to elucidate the relation between the number of those lines and the chronological age of an individual. Material of the study consisted of undecalcified sections of 227 permanent teeth of 178 individuals (89 males, 89 females, average age 47.

[The diagnosis of sex by qualitative traits of the pelvis].

Qualitative characters of sexual dimorphism were studied visually using pelvic bones of 115 men and 99 women. The drawn-up programme on sex diagnosis according to 20 osteoscopic characters of pelvic bones makes it possible to determine individual sex in 89.87% of men and 86.

[The determination of the age of an individual by the morphological signs of the pubic symphysis].

The series of 365 pelvic bones from the area of pubic joint (195 female and 170 male) were studied. The author developed regression equations to determine individual age on the basis of the results of age dynamics study in relation to 5 morphologic characteristics of pubic joint (joint surface, front and rear borders, upper and lower ends). This method makes it possible to determine individual age within the interval of 15-90 years of age (mean error 7.