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[The role of the dentist in modern forensic age determination]
Dorothea C Berndt1, Tatjana Despotovic, Michael T Mund
1Klinik für Zahnärztliche Chirurgie, -Radiologie, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde, Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 3, CH-4056 Basel. dorothea.berndt@unibas.ch
Abstract:
The increase of international movements has led to a greater demand for forensic age estimation of foreigners without valid identification documents. Age estimation on living individuals is part of asylum and criminal proceedings. Age estimation has become also important within identification of victims, because of the fact of increasing natural disasters and events of terrorism. Therefore dentists are more and more appointed to this job. There are varieties of methods in age estimation. Dental examination and analysis of panoramic x-ray are usually used for dental age estimation.
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