Examining the socioeconomic effects on third molar maturation in a Portuguese sample of children, adolescents and young adults
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- 作者：J. L. Carneiro ; I. M. Caldas ; A. Afonso…
- 关键词：Forensic age estimation ; Dental techniques ; Third molar ; Root development ; Socioeconomic status
- 刊名：International Journal of Legal Medicine
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：131
- 期：1
- 页码：235-242
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- 刊物类别：Medicine
- 刊物主题：Forensic Medicine; Medical Law; Medicine/Public Health, general;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1437-1596
- 卷排序：131
文摘
IntroductionThe impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on tooth mineralization has seldom been evaluated. This is important because SES can be used as a proxy for quantifying factors in the environmental that can impact mineralization but that can be difficult to measure directly, such as nutrition.