Publications by authors named "Xing-Wei Lin"
The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of Cameriere's methods on dental age estimation in the northern Chinese population. A sample of orthopantomographs of 785 healthy children (397 girls and 388 boys) aged between 5 and 15 years was collected. The seven left permanent mandibular teeth were evaluated with Cameriere's method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDental age estimation is of great importance for individual identification in forensic medicine and many other fields of study. Among them, tooth eruption is a parameter developmental morphology that can be determined by clinical examinations or by dental X-rays. The purpose of present research is to study the chronological course of third molars eruption in a Chinese population and compare that with other ethnic population for age estimation.
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- Recent studies indicate that the impaction status of third molars affects their mineralization rates, particularly in different demographic groups such as Europids and Black Africans.
- A study involving 3,512 digital images of third molars from northwestern Chinese subjects revealed that impacted third molars tend to mineralize more slowly than non-impacted ones, with notable age differences at certain mineralization stages.
- The findings suggest that impaction should be taken into account when estimating dental age, as it significantly influences the mineralization process in the northwestern Chinese population.