Estimation of Age Using Alveolar Bone Loss: Forensic and Anthropological Applications

• Michel Ruquet ^[1] ; Bérengère Saliba-Serre ^[1] ; Delphine Tardivo ^[1] ; Bruno Foti ^[1]
  1. [1] Faculté de Médecine Secteur Nord Unité Mixte de Recherche 7268 ADÉS Aix‐Marseille Université/EFS/CNRS Marseille Cedex 15 France
• Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 60, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 1305-1309
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The objective of this study was to utilize a new odontological methodological approach based on radiographic for age estimation. The study was comprised of 397 participants aged between 9 and 87 years. A clinical examination and a radiographic assessment of alve- olar bone loss were performed. Direct measures of alveolar bone level were recorded using CT scans. A medical examination report was attached to the investigation file. Because of the link between alveolar bone loss and age, a model was proposed to enable simple, reliable, and quick age estimation. This work added new arguments for age estimation. This study aimed to develop a simple, standardized, and reproducible technique for age estimation of adults of actual populations in forensic medicine and ancient populations in funeral anthropology.