TY - JOUR
T1 - Mesiodistal width of canines
T2 - A tool for sex determination
AU - Bakkannavar, Shankar M.
AU - Monteiro, Francis N.P.
AU - Arun, M.
AU - Kumar, G. Pradeep
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Teeth, in the living as well as the dead, are the most useful objects in the field of forensic investigation. Their ability to survive in situations like mass disasters makes them important tools in victim identification. Though the morphology and structure is similar in both men and women, there are subtle differences. Variation in dental size can give a clue about differences between the sexes. Many authors have measured the crowns of teeth in both men and women and found certain variations. Canines, reported to survive air crash and hurricane disasters, are perhaps the most stable teeth in the oral cavity because of the labiolingual thickness of the crown and the root anchorage in the alveolar process of the jaws. Measurement of mesiodistal width of the mandibular and maxillary canines provides good evidence of sex identification due to dimorphism.
AB - Teeth, in the living as well as the dead, are the most useful objects in the field of forensic investigation. Their ability to survive in situations like mass disasters makes them important tools in victim identification. Though the morphology and structure is similar in both men and women, there are subtle differences. Variation in dental size can give a clue about differences between the sexes. Many authors have measured the crowns of teeth in both men and women and found certain variations. Canines, reported to survive air crash and hurricane disasters, are perhaps the most stable teeth in the oral cavity because of the labiolingual thickness of the crown and the root anchorage in the alveolar process of the jaws. Measurement of mesiodistal width of the mandibular and maxillary canines provides good evidence of sex identification due to dimorphism.
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U2 - 10.1258/msl.2011.010152
DO - 10.1258/msl.2011.010152
M3 - Article
C2 - 22399025
AN - SCOPUS:84855675622
SN - 0025-8024
VL - 52
SP - 22
EP - 26
JO - Medicine, Science and the Law
JF - Medicine, Science and the Law
IS - 1
ER -