Reliability of a forensic odontology method for age-at-death estimation in adults: A Mexican case study.

Autor:	Scendoni R; Department of Law, Institute of Legal Medicine (AgEstimation Project), University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy., Vázquez IS; Extraordinary Mechanism for Human Identification (MEIF) - United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Mexico., Arrais Ribeiro IL; Postgraduate Program in Dentistry, Federal University of Paraíba, Campus I, João Pessoa, PB, 58051900, Brazil., De Luca S; Área de Identificación Forense, Unidad de Derechos Humanos, Servicio Médico Legal, Santiago de Chile, Chile., Zolotenkova GV; Department of Forensic Medicine, First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia., Viva S; Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy., Kumagai A; Division of Forensic Odontology and Disaster Oral Medicine, Department of Forensic Science, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan., Cameriere R; Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Forensic science international. Synergy [Forensic Sci Int Synerg] 2024 Jun 26; Vol. 9, pp. 100484. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 26 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1016/j.fsisyn.2024.100484
Abstrakt:	This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of an age estimation method based on the pulp⁄tooth area ratio by assessing intra- and inter-examiner agreement across five observers at different intervals. Using the same X-ray device and technical parameters, 96 digital periapical X-ray images of upper and lower canines were obtained from 28 deceased people in Central America, whose age at death ranged from 19 to 49 years. Excellent and good agreement of results were achieved, and there were no statistically significant differences. The R2 value for upper teeth (54.0%) was higher than the R2 value for lower teeth (45.7%). The highest intraclass correlation coefficient value was 0.995 (0.993-0.997) and the lowest 0.798 (0.545-0.895). Inter-examiner agreement was high with values of 0.975 (0.965-0.983) and 0.927 (0.879-0.955). This method is adequate for assessing age in missing and unidentified people, including victims of mass disasters. Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (© 2024 The Authors.)
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