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Age estimation for dental patients using orthopantomographs.

Bekir Karaarslan¹, Emine Sirin Karaarslan, Abdul Semih Ozsevik

¹Institution of Forensic Medicine of the Ministry of Justice, Gaziantep Branch of the Forensic Medicine, Specialist of Forensic Medicine Gaziantep, Turkey.

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Summary

Dental age estimation using orthopantomographs (OPGs) is most accurate in children. Accuracy decreases significantly with age, with OPGs proving inadequate for reliable age determination in adults.

Keywords:

Age estimation Forensic dentistry Orthopantomographs

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Area of Science:

Dentistry
Forensic Anthropology
Radiology

Background:

Dental age estimation is crucial in various fields.
Orthopantomographs (OPGs) are commonly used dental radiographs.
Assessing the reliability of OPGs for age estimation is important.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the accuracy of age estimation in dental patients using OPGs.
To compare age estimates with chronological ages.
To assess the reliability of age estimates between two independent dentists.

Main Methods:

Retrospective study of 238 Turkish individuals aged 1-60 years.
OPGs were evaluated by two independent dentists.
Age estimation was performed by classifying radiographs into decades.

Main Results:

Age estimates were most accurate in the 1-10 years age range (89.6%).
Accuracy diminished with increasing age, with the 41-50 years range being least accurate (41.7%).
No significant differences in age estimation accuracy were found between the two dentists.

Conclusions:

OPG-based age estimation is highly accurate in the first decade of life.
Accuracy significantly decreases in older age groups.
OPGs are not sufficiently adequate for precise age estimation, particularly in adults.