title: A review of the most commonly used dental age estimation techniques.
abstract: This review of literature provides an overview of the most commonly used dental age estimation techniques and focuses on dental age estimation scoring systems in children and adults. In order to obtain a more reliable and reproducible age estimation the forensic odontologist should use several of these available methods whenever an age estimation in the living or dead is required.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, Centre of Forensic Medicine-Forensic Odontology, School of Dentistry, Oral Pathology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. guy.willems@med.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Willems
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000366:Age Determination by Teeth / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003116:Color; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011861:Radiography, Dental; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000254:growth & development