Dental Age Estimation (DAE): Data management for tooth development stages including the third molar. Appropriate censoring of Stage H, the final stage of tooth development

• Published in: Journal of forensic and legal medicine Vol. 36; pp. 177 - 184
• Main Authors: Roberts, Graham J., McDonald, Fraser, Andiappan, Manoharan, Lucas, Victoria S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2015; Churchill Livingstone Inc., Medical Publishers
• Subjects: Adult; Age Determination by Teeth; Censored data; Datasets as Topic; Dental age estimation; Forensic odontology; Humans; Male; Models, Statistical; Molar, Third - growth & development; Normal distribution; Pathology; Probability; Reference Values; Teeth; Third molars; Three standard deviations; Tooth - growth & development; Tooth Calcification - physiology; Young Adult; Censored data; Dental age estimation; Third molars; Three standard deviations
• ISSN: 1752-928X; 1878-7487
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2015.08.013

The final stage of dental development of third molars is usually helpful to indicate whether or not a subject is aged over 18 years. A complexity is that the final stage of development is unlimited in its upper border. Investigators usually select an inappropriate upper age limit or censor point for...