[A case of identification of two persons from heavily burned teeth by age estimation].
A man murdered his two daughters, one five years and two months old and one seven months old. He placed them into a 750 degrees C aluminum liquefying furnace. Teeth and many fragments of the severely burned bones were recovered. However, at first, the bone fragments did not offer proof that two children were put into the furnace. The age estimation of the teeth burned in liquefied aluminum was carried out based on the maturity of the teeth and the degree of absorption of deciduous teeth roots. As a result from the admixture of permanent teeth and deciduous teeth, we presumed them to be derived from more than one person.
Tsuchimochi
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Department of Legal Medicine, Nagoya City University Medical School, Aichi, Japan.
Koyama
H
H
Inoue
H
H
Maeno
Y
Y
Iwasa
M
M
Saito
K
K
Matoba
R
R
D000366:Age Determination by Teeth; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005553:Forensic Dentistry; D006708:Homicide; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous