Altersschätzung

Predictive values derived from lower wisdom teeth developmental stages on orthopantomograms to calculate the chronological age in adolescence and young adults as a prerequisite to obtain age-adjusted informed patient consent prior to elective surgical procedures in young patients with incomplete or mismatched personal data

“…Besides the well-known forensic application of dental chart records and dental radiographs in the identification of human corpses [53], [87] the unique spatio-temporal developmental interval of the dentition has attracted broad interest in human sciences, e.g. in the fields of comparative anthropology [10], [17], [25], [26], [48], to detail the human development and its deviations in diseases of internal or external origin [59], to assess dental ages relevant for dental treatment [31], [32], [33], [35], [34], [36], [51] and to correlate certain stages of the dentition with chronological age [5], [8], [40], [107], [103].…”

“…The development of the human dentition is a long lasting process starting in certain phases of the embryo [100], continues in early childhood [39], [57], [59], [63], [43], [94] and will be completed passing distinct phases of tooth eruptions that can last up to the third decade of life [67], [84], [87] (Figure 1 (Fig. 1) and Figure 2 (Fig.…”

“…The known association of certain phases of human dentition to chronological age was already used for different purposes, predominantly in dental treatment planning and in forensic sciences [1], [2], [4], [5], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [39], [40], [41], [42], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [61], [62], [63], [65], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [80], [81], [82], [83], [85], [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [94], [97], [99], [103], [104], [105], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113]. The most prominent early ...…”

“…The most prominent early usage of dental age determination was probably the oral investigation of children in England during the nineteenth century [87], [88] (quoted in [87]). In that time child labor was a common practice and children’s maturity to professional work was assessed by dental findings [87]. Identification and age assessment by means of tooth investigation is widely applied in the dental and forensic sciences in order to identify corpses and to estimate their likely age [53], [87].…”

“…In that time child labor was a common practice and children’s maturity to professional work was assessed by dental findings [87]. Identification and age assessment by means of tooth investigation is widely applied in the dental and forensic sciences in order to identify corpses and to estimate their likely age [53], [87]. With respect to forensic applications, dental, physical and radiographic findings are estimated relative to other findings of the skeleton [11], [12], [19], [27], [30], [44], [45], [52], [64], [86], [90], [91], [92], [93], [95], [101], [102], [108], [112], [113].…”