Permanent tooth formation as a method of estimating age.

CONCLUSIONS: These results provide an accurate method to estimate age from developing permanent mandibular teeth. The lack of ethnic difference in dental maturity of individual teeth, suggest that these findings might be appropriate to accurately estimate age for other groups. PMID: 19828988 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Frontiers of Oral Biology - Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Front Oral Biol Source Type: research