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- Techniques for estimating biological age are advancing, particularly in forensic radiology, where they assist in determining the chronological age of corpses or living subjects, such as undocumented immigrants.
- The aging process, evident through changes in teeth like secondary dentine deposition and pulp chamber size reduction, has led to specific forensic methods like Kvaal-Solheim and Cameriere for age estimation.
- This study explores the volume of canine pulp chambers relative to total tooth volume, aiming to develop new regression formulas for age estimation using 91 cone beam scans and open-source software for accessible volume calculations.
Article Abstract
Techniques for estimation of biological age are constantly evolving and are finding daily application in the forensic radiology field in cases concerning the estimation of the chronological age of a corpse in order to reconstruct the biological profile, or of a living subject, for example in cases of immigration of people without identity papers from a civil registry. The deposition of teeth secondary dentine and consequent decrease of pulp chamber in size are well known as aging phenomena, and they have been applied to the forensic context by the development of age estimation procedures, such as Kvaal-Solheim and Cameriere methods. The present study takes into consideration canines pulp chamber volume related to the entire teeth volume, with the aim of proposing new regression formulae for age estimation using 91 cone beam computerized scans and a freeware open-source software, in order to permit affordable reproducibility of volumes calculation.
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