Cone-Beam Computed Tomography: A useful tool for dental age estimation?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 700-702

  Maret, D ^a   Peters, O A ^b   Dedouit, F ^a,c   Telmon, N ^a,c   Sixou, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^c CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; JAW; MEASUREMENT; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH ROOT;

AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTH; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79954416993     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.01.039     Document Type: Article

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