Dental maturity in South France: A comparison between Demirjian's method and polynomial functions

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1059-1066

  Chaillet, Nils ^a   Demirjian, Arto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Demirjian's method; Dental maturity; Forensic science; Polynomial function

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMIRJIAN METHOD; DENTAL MATURITY; DENTAL MATURITY SCORE; DENTISTRY; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FRANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATURATION; MOLAR TOOTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PANORAMIC TOMOGRAPHY; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 4444273636     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2004037     Document Type: Article

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