Assessment of Digital Panoramic Radiographs in Saudi Population: A Study based on Kvaal's Method | Chapter 11 | Research Developments in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 10

 This study aims to use Kvaal's procedure to estimate the chronological age of inmates using digital sweeping radiographs and verify the lawfulness of regression equatings proposed by Kvaal et al. in the Saudi state. In forensic skill, age estimation, specifically age estimation utilizing dentition, plays a significant act in identifying unknown human parties. The emergence of second molars is idea to have been secondhand by the Romans to assess smell of an odor eligibility. Kvaal and others. published a new approach for canny the chronological age of individuals established the age-pulp size connection on periapical dental radiographs in 1995. Digital panoramic radiographs are usually employed in dental practice because they stop blame and grant pardon the acquisition of pictures of six dentition in one beam. There was no statistical difference middle from two points the assessed and sequential ages when the Kvaal approach was applied to Saudi appendages. A total of 74 digital orthopantomograms were randomly picked from Qassim University dental clinic in Saudi Arabia, grazing in age from 18 to 64 years (mean age 32 age). The radiographs were taken in between 2018-2021 in accordance with inclusion and expulsion criteria. Age estimation accompanying dental radiographs, in particular, is noninvasive and maybe utilized for two together the living and the dead. Most age estimations based on dental radiographs employ the decrease in pulp crater due to developing, as described by Kvaal and others. utilizing periapical radiograph. As per this inspection, a future examination endure utilize an prodigious example size accompanying a good portrayal of tests from various age groups, nationalities, and genders.6

Author(s) Details:

Hosam Samir Alharbi,
Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.

Ahmad Majed Alharbi,
Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.

K. Shaul Hameed,
Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Science, College of Dentistry, Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia.

Ramy Elmoazen,
School of Computing, Eastern Finland University, Saudi Arabia.

Abdulmajeed Obaid Alenazi,
Mustaqbal University, Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia.

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