How accurate can an x-ray be in determining the age of a child between 12 and 18?

Question:

Can the teeth determine the age within 6 months?

Can that age be proven in court?

Answers:
Personally, I would say that a dental x-ray would NOT prove the age of a child. As you see by reading just 3 or 4 questions down, we have a 16 year old who still has three teeth that are usually lost by age 12. That's 4 years off! A fair number of kids get their wisdom teeth at age 16 and even younger. Many don't get them until 18 or older and quite a few don't get them until they are 20 or so.

I would serve as an expert witness against the use of dental x-rays as providing definitive evidence for chronological age. (I'm not trying to volunteer in this instance, but I'm just saying that I can lay my hands on at least 100 panoramic x-rays in my own office to prove the unreliability of using dental age to prove chronological age.)

good question... I don't think an x-ray is accurate but other types of testing would be

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