The use of apical translucent dentine of the lower central incisors to predict age in individual or known gender
| Autor: | Owoeye, Olatunde, Onwuka, Silas Kalu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Anatomy Journal of Africa; Vol 5, No 1 (2016); 795-800 |
| ISSN: | 2226-6054 2305-9478 |
| Popis: | Apical translucent dentine has been shown to provide accurate results for age estimation but its value in discriminating gender has received little attention. The objective of the current study was to determine the association between apical translucent dentine of the lower central incisors with age and gender. Sixty permanent lower central incisors were collected and were sectioned to a thickness of 5 mm. Apical translucent dentine was measured using callipers. This was followed by the creation of a series of scatter plots and regression line calculation for the association between apical translucent dentine and age. Regression analysis was done to determine the differences between male and female subjects’, both as a single and as an interaction term between gender and percentage length of apical translucent dentine. There was no significant difference in the mean age with respect to gender (mean difference -0.17, Pvalue= 0.94). Significant correlations were observed between age and apical dentine translucence (I) (0.95, P-value |
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