Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, cilt.47, sa.3, ss.313-321, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
The number of criminal cases involving Turkish juveniles has increased in recent years. To date, there is no method for chronological age estimation according to third-molar mineralization in Western Turkish children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the mandibular third molar development according to the eight stages (A-H) of the Demirjian method and to compare third-molar development according to gender and age with previous data. The digital orthopantomograms of 1120 white Turkish children (406 boys, mean age 15.17 +/- 3.80years, and 714 girls, mean age 16.83 +/- 3.59years) aged 7 to 22years, from the Western Anatolia region were retrospectively reviewed. The Turkish population reached stage H at a mean age of 20years in both genders. Dental mineralization in Western Turkish children was delayed at stages D-G but advanced at stage H compared with that in Turkish children in other regions. Third molar root development can reliably estimate the mean age and age range for a juvenile of unknown chronological age, especially compared with the standard deviation obtained using other techniques for calculating the skeletal age of the hand-wrist or long bones.