Are teeth useful in estimating stature?

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 460-464

  Prabhu, Sudeendra ^a,c   Acharya, Ashith B ^a   Muddapur, Mahadevayya V ^b  

^a SDM COLLEGE OF DENTAL SCIENCES AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c YENEPOYA DENTAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Dentition; Forensic anthropology; Ridge regression; Stature prediction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCISOR; LONG BONE; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREMOLAR TOOTH; STUDENT T TEST; TOOTH;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; DENTAL MODELS; DENTITION, PERMANENT; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOOTH CROWN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878907101     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: 18787487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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