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Soorneedi N, Venkatachalaiah A, Manikya S, Dasari AB, Gaddam B, Latha A. Multiple Methods of Dentin Translucency for Age Estimation. JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AND BIOALLIED SCIENCES 2023; 15:S595-S600. [PMID: 37654306 PMCID: PMC10466666 DOI: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_33_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Age estimation is an essential part of forensic odontology and many methods are available with variable accuracy. However, the research is going on to find the simple and most reliable method. Objectives By measuring the length and area of root dentin translucency in extracted tooth specimens manually and digitally, and comparing them, this study aims to find the most reliable technique of age assessment. Materials and Methods One-hundred and twenty-five single-rooted extracted human permanent teeth were selected for the study. In both unsectioned and sectioned teeth, the total length of root dentin translucency was manually measured using a digital vernier caliper. Then, in a ground-sectioned tooth specimen, the total length and area of root dentin translucency were measured digitally using a scanner scale and computer software. Both the methods were compared. Results In both manual and digital approaches, the length and area of root dentin translucency grew with age, from younger to older age groups. On comparing the measurements, the correlation coefficient was somewhat higher for digital area measurements than other measurements (r = 0.985). Conclusion The digital technique outperforms the traditional way for calculating age, and furthermore, measuring the area in the digital method for age estimation has shown to be more accurate.
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- Neeharika Soorneedi
- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Malla Reddy Institute of Dental Sciences, Suraram, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Malla Reddy Institute of Dental Sciences, Suraram, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Malla Reddy Institute of Dental Sciences, Suraram, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- General Dentist, C.H.P. Berkshires, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Periodontics, Mamata Dental College, Khammam, Telangana, India
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Suciyanie IM, Gultom FP, Hidayat AN, Suhartono AW, Yuniastuti M, Auerkari EI. Accuracy of forensic age estimation using cementum annulation and dentin translucency in adult: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Legal Med 2022; 136:1443-1455. [PMID: 35088151 DOI: 10.1007/s00414-022-02777-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/15/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Identification of the living and the dead individual is essential in routine forensic dental examinations. Age determination can be of great value in forensic odontology, not only in identifying bodies but also in relation to crime. When subjects have extensive changes that external features provide no information, teeth are often the only means of identification. Several procedures for age-at-death estimation in adults have been introduced. Two of them, cementum annulation and dentin translucency, are frequently used as a single dental indicator. Cementum annulation refers to an alternating dark and light band; each pair of it represents 1 year. Meanwhile, dentin translucency is the other dental physiological process that begins in the second or third decade of life and progresses with age. There are still few studies that compared both methods and their accuracy in estimating adult age at death. Therefore, this study aims to test and compare cementum annulation and dentin translucency accuracy by performing a systematic search on five online databases (Pubmed, Scopus, Ebsco, ScienceDirect, and Wiley). All the research articles must be published in the last 10 years, and the full paper must be available in English. Out of the total 1178 literature, 28 studies were recruited for qualitative analysis and 23 studies for meta-analysis. The results show that dentin translucency age estimation is more accurate than the cementum annulation method in the entire population. It is recommended to use the cementum annulation method for younger adults (15-44 years) and the dentin translucency method for the older ones (≥ 45 years).
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- Indah Melati Suciyanie
- Department of Oral Biology, Division of Forensic Odontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya No. 4, Central Jakarta, 10430, , DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Oral Biology, Division of Forensic Odontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya No. 4, Central Jakarta, 10430, , DKI Jakarta, Indonesia.
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- Department of Oral Biology, Division of Forensic Odontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya No. 4, Central Jakarta, 10430, , DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Oral Biology, Division of Forensic Odontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya No. 4, Central Jakarta, 10430, , DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Oral Biology, Division of Forensic Odontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya No. 4, Central Jakarta, 10430, , DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Oral Biology, Division of Forensic Odontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia, Jl. Salemba Raya No. 4, Central Jakarta, 10430, , DKI Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Yazdanian M, Karami S, Tahmasebi E, Alam M, Abbasi K, Rahbar M, Tebyaniyan H, Ranjbar R, Seifalian A, Yazdanian A. Dental Radiographic/Digital Radiography Technology along with Biological Agents in Human Identification. SCANNING 2022; 2022:5265912. [PMID: 35116089 PMCID: PMC8789467 DOI: 10.1155/2022/5265912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The heavy casualties associated with mass disasters necessitate substantial resources to be managed. The unexpectedly violent nature of such occurrences usually remains a problematic amount of victims that urgently require to be identified by a reliable and economical method. Conventional identification methods are inefficient in many cases such as plane crashes and fire accidents that have damaged the macrobiometric features such as fingerprints or faces. An appropriate recognition method for such cases should use features more resistant to destruction. Forensic dentistry provides the most appropriate available method for the successful identification of victims using careful techniques and precise data interpretation. Since bones and teeth are the most persistent parts of the demolished bodies in sudden mass disasters, scanning and radiographs are unrepeatable parts of forensic dentistry. Forensic dentistry as a scientific method of human remain identification has been considerably referred to be efficient in disasters. Forensic dentistry can be used for either "sex and age estimation," "Medical biotechnology techniques," or "identification with dental records," etc. The present review is aimed at discussing the development and implementation of forensic dentistry methods for human identification. For this object, the literature from the last decade has been searched for the innovations in forensic dentistry for human identification based on the PubMed database.
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- Mohsen Yazdanian
- Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
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- Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Research Center for Prevention of Oral and Dental Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine Commercialization Centre (Ltd), The London Bioscience Innovation Centre, London, UK
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- Department of Veterinary, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Marro F, Fernandez C, Martens L, Jacquet W, Marks L. Erosive tooth Wear in special Olympic athletes with intellectual disabilities. BMC Oral Health 2019; 19:37. [PMID: 30819176 PMCID: PMC6393996 DOI: 10.1186/s12903-019-0727-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Special Olympics (SO) events represent an opportunity to obtain considerable information regarding intellectual disable (ID) patients. Studies done with SO data have shown an overview of the oral health status of these athletes; however, no information exists regarding the erosive tooth wear (ETW). Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the presence and severity of ETW in athletes with ID who participated in the SO Belgium 2016. Methods The study population consisted in 232 athletes with ID who participated in the SO special smiles program, Belgium 2016. For analysis, the sample was divided in three groups: a) athletes with ID under the age of 25 not diagnosed with Down Syndrome (DS) (n = 174), b) athletes with DS under the age of 25 (n = 39) and c) athletes with DS from 25 and older ages (n = 58). Two calibrated dentists performed dental examinations using the Basic Erosive Wear Examination Index (BEWE). The BEWE sum > 0 was used to determine prevalence of ETW. Severity was determined by two- indicators: 1) By risk levels (low, medium and high risk) proposed by the BEWE index, and 2) by the highest score reached per subject in at least one tooth (BEWE1, 2 or 3). Chi-square test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to detect significant differences among different groups (p < 0.05). Results The prevalence of ETW for young athletes with ID was 51.14%. Within these athletes, the DS group presented a significant higher mean BEWE sum (4.67, SD 5.64) and prevalence of ETW (69.2%BEWE> 0) when compared to athletes without DS (mean BEWE sum: 1.96, SD 3.47 and 46.3% BEWE> 0; p < 0.05). Furthermore, a significantly higher percentage of athletes with DS were considered at high risk of ETW (p < 0.05). Conclusions As a conclusion, half of the young athletes with ID presented at least one affected surface with ETW. The recorded prevalence and severity of ETW for the younger group of athletes with DS was distinctly higher than the athletes with ID not having DS. This shows the need to generate knowledge in order to provide correct management and prevention of erosive tooth wear in populations with ID.
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- F Marro
- Department of Paediatric Dentistry, PaeCoMeDiS research cluster, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. .,Department Paediatric Dentistry & Special Care Dentistry, Dental School, Faculty of Medicine and Health sciences, University Gent, Gent, Belgium.
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- Center of Special Care in Dentistry, PaeCoMeDiS, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Paediatric Dentistry, PaeCoMeDiS research cluster, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Oral Health Research Group ORHE, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.,Department of Educational Sciences EDWE-LOCI, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Center of Special Care in Dentistry, PaeCoMeDiS, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Prediction of Preeclampsia in Early Pregnancy by Estimating the Spot Urinary Albumin/Creatinine Ratio. J Obstet Gynaecol India 2017; 67:258-262. [PMID: 28706364 DOI: 10.1007/s13224-016-0958-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To assess whether a spot urinary albumin:creatinine ratio (ACR) measured before 20 weeks of gestation can predict subsequent development of preeclampsia. METHODS The ACR was determined from midstream urine sample taken between 17 and 20 weeks of gestation. Urine albumin was measured by immunoturbidimetric method using commercially available kit (Beckman Coulter) through Beckman AU 480 fully automated biochemistry analyzer. Urine creatinine was measured by modified kinetic Jaffe reaction without deproteinization.[Formula: see text]Participants were then followed until delivery. Primary outcome measure was preeclampsia, secondary outcome measures were gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes mellitus, IUGR, and normal range estimate of urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio was established. RESULT The median spot urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio measured between 17 and 20 weeks of gestation was 5.2 mg/g of creatinine (2.5-9.6). Women who subsequently developed preeclampsia had higher spot urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (median 30.795 [9.7-92.8]) in comparison with women who developed gestational hypertension (median 5.2 [0.7-7.2]) and unaffected women (median 5.2 [2.5-9.6]). The urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio of the mother who developed IUGR was significantly higher. By ROC analysis, the optimum ACR to predict preeclampsia was 9.85 mg/g of creatinine. The relative risk of developing preeclampsia in women with urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio more than 9.85 mg/g of creatinine was higher than in the women who had urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio less than 9.85 mg/g of creatinine. CONCLUSION A spot urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio of more than 9.8 mg/g of creatinine can predict the development of preeclampsia in later pregnancy with the sensitivity and specificity of 67 and 76%, respectively. However, additional studies and cost-benefit analysis are required to confirm these finding before recommending this test for screening purposes.
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