Dental Age Assessment by I and I: Portuguese Legal Age Thresholds of 12 and 14 Year Olds.

Objective: Better understanding of dental age assessment may help in cases of age estimation in Forensic Clinics. The first aim was to provide essential information on method reliability for upcoming studies using dental age assessment by second molar index (I), and third molar index (I) for age estimation on legal ages of 12 - 14 years. The second aim was to document forensic method outcomes of the Demirjian method which has already been used in forensic clinic.

Cut-off for the legal ages in the Portuguese Population by Third Maturity Index: Measures of Accuracy.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to estimate the cut-off points for the Portuguese legal ages through the I, and to compare them with the methods of Demirjian, Nolla and Moorrees.

Design: The lower third molars were analyzed on 348 orthopantomography's aged between 12 and 23 years in a Portuguese Population. The images were analyzed by ImageJ and the cut-off points were calculated for the respective legal ages of 14, 16, 18 and 21 years old.

A statistical model to identify determinants of glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes with different pharmacotherapeutic profiles.

Aim: To develop a statistical model to identify determinants of glycemic control.

Materials And Methods: A database was extracted from patients' records with at least one glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) analysis and with antidiabetic therapy established and stabilized. A logistic regression model was designed to identify the statistical significance of factors associated with glycemic control.

Validation of Cameriere's medical-legal age estimation method using seconds premolars in a Portuguese population.

The goal of this project is to validate the Cameriere's method applied to the upper and lower second premolars in a Portuguese population, regarding the forensic estimate of age. The applied sample consisted in 100 panoramic radiographs, of 60 males and 40 females, patients of the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Lisbon, whose ages vary between 15 and 35 years old. Thus, a total of 400 teeth were investigated (200 upper second premolars and 200 lower second premolars).

Age estimation in Portuguese population: The application of the London atlas of tooth development and eruption.

Chronological age estimation from the dental parameters is becoming increasingly important. The London atlas of tooth development is the most recent developed method and represents a modification of the previous older methods. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the London atlas for the dental age estimation in the Portuguese population.