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Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population

Introduction Age estimation holds significant importance within the realm of forensic science, serving as a crucial tool for various purposes such as validating birth certificates, aiding immigration processes, and determining eligibility for retirement benefits. Additionally, age estimation carries...

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Autores principales: Ahmed Khan, Hooriyah Laiq, Murthykumar, Karthikeyan, Sekaran, Saravanan, Ganapathy, Dhanraj
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Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10597869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885555
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45870
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author Ahmed Khan, Hooriyah Laiq
Murthykumar, Karthikeyan
Sekaran, Saravanan
Ganapathy, Dhanraj
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Murthykumar, Karthikeyan
Sekaran, Saravanan
Ganapathy, Dhanraj
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description Introduction Age estimation holds significant importance within the realm of forensic science, serving as a crucial tool for various purposes such as validating birth certificates, aiding immigration processes, and determining eligibility for retirement benefits. Additionally, age estimation carries significant implications in situations involving human trafficking, offering insights into matters such as legal culpability, adult classification, and marriage age assessment. Aim The purpose of this research was to assess the precision of the Tooth Coronal Index (TCI) in the estimation of age, a key component of forensic odontology. Materials and methods The research employed a retrospective approach, analyzing 700 digital panoramic radiographs of the mandibular first bicuspids. The study population was categorized into five age groups viz. 20-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, and above 61 years respectively. Statistical methods were applied to investigate the relation between TCI and age. Additionally, one-way ANOVA was utilized to compare the groups. Results Findings revealed that males aged between 20-30 years exhibited underestimation, while males above 60 years displayed overestimation. Among females, the smallest disparity between existent and calculated age was observed in the 31-40 age group. Notably, ANOVA analysis for females indicated highly significant differences between the calculated and actual ages across all age segments (P<0.01). Regarding the mean TCI, inter-group comparisons showed statistically insignificant differences in males, while in females, the distinctions were statistically extremely noteworthy (P<0.01). Conclusion The utilization of TCI for age estimation based on mandibular first bicuspids is recommended as a convenient, non-invasive, and time-efficient approach.
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spelling pubmed-105978692023-10-26 Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population Ahmed Khan, Hooriyah Laiq Murthykumar, Karthikeyan Sekaran, Saravanan Ganapathy, Dhanraj Cureus Dentistry Introduction Age estimation holds significant importance within the realm of forensic science, serving as a crucial tool for various purposes such as validating birth certificates, aiding immigration processes, and determining eligibility for retirement benefits. Additionally, age estimation carries significant implications in situations involving human trafficking, offering insights into matters such as legal culpability, adult classification, and marriage age assessment. Aim The purpose of this research was to assess the precision of the Tooth Coronal Index (TCI) in the estimation of age, a key component of forensic odontology. Materials and methods The research employed a retrospective approach, analyzing 700 digital panoramic radiographs of the mandibular first bicuspids. The study population was categorized into five age groups viz. 20-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, and above 61 years respectively. Statistical methods were applied to investigate the relation between TCI and age. Additionally, one-way ANOVA was utilized to compare the groups. Results Findings revealed that males aged between 20-30 years exhibited underestimation, while males above 60 years displayed overestimation. Among females, the smallest disparity between existent and calculated age was observed in the 31-40 age group. Notably, ANOVA analysis for females indicated highly significant differences between the calculated and actual ages across all age segments (P<0.01). Regarding the mean TCI, inter-group comparisons showed statistically insignificant differences in males, while in females, the distinctions were statistically extremely noteworthy (P<0.01). Conclusion The utilization of TCI for age estimation based on mandibular first bicuspids is recommended as a convenient, non-invasive, and time-efficient approach. Cureus 2023-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10597869/ /pubmed/37885555 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45870 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ahmed Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ahmed Khan, Hooriyah Laiq
Murthykumar, Karthikeyan
Sekaran, Saravanan
Ganapathy, Dhanraj
Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population
title Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population
title_full Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population
title_fullStr Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population
title_full_unstemmed Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population
title_short Digital Panoramic Radiographs for Age Prediction Utilizing the Tooth Coronal Index of First Mandibular Bicuspids Among the South Indian Population
title_sort digital panoramic radiographs for age prediction utilizing the tooth coronal index of first mandibular bicuspids among the south indian population
topic Dentistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10597869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885555
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45870
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