Age estimation: dental methods
Forensic Odontology · Dental (BDS)
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An asylum seeker claims 16; authorities doubt it. How do teeth help? Third-molar development and root-formation stages estimate whether 16 is plausible - reported as a range with uncertainty. Students learn the legal weight: age decides child-vs-adult processing; the expert reports probability, not certainty - because overstatement can deport a child or free an adult wrongly.