Time of mineralization of permanent teeth in children and adolescents in Gaborone, Botswana

Age estimation based on Willems method versus new country-specific method in South African black children

“…[23] The most well known and widely applied is the technique described by Demirjian et al [10] The technique was developed on a French-Canadian reference sample to establish age related maturity curves or tables. Numerous studies have been and still are reporting on its validation in specific populations [29][30][31][32] while others adapted the used methodology. One of the latter is the Willems BC method.…”

The WITS Atlas: A Black Southern African dental atlas for permanent tooth formation and emergence

“…A limitation is the combining of data on children from different populations despite the well‐established pattern of population variation in tooth formation (Flood, Franklin, Turlach, & McGeachie, ; Khorate, Dinkar, & Ahmed, ; Koshy & Tandon, ; Willems, Van Olmen, Spiessens, & Carels, ; Zhai, Park, Han, Wang, Ji, & Tao, ). For example, Black children from Africa are well advanced in dental emergence and formation compared to European and Asian populations (Cavrić, Vodanović, Marušić, & Galić, ; Oziegbe, Esan, Oyedele, 2014). Therefore, the London atlas could potentially yield biased age estimations for many populations.…”

Validation of third molar maturity index (I 3M ) for discrimination of juvenile/adult status in South Indian population

“…Comprehensive age estimation in investigations will utilize all available methods and development of third molars with further compliments of the skeletal indicators may give an assessment of the age of unknown individual within expected confidence interval 7 . Applicability of third molars in age estimation was previously reported and tested in practice; however, some authors mark them as unreliable indicators, because of the different presence, malposition, and different time of initial formation and the wide age range of mineralization 8,9 . On the other hand, the review of medical and anthropology literature evinced undisputed usefulness on third molar development for age assessments in subadult individuals [10][11][12][13] .…”