Tooth Cementum Annulation: A Literature Review
Tooth Cementum Annulation: A Literature Review
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10.3390/forensicsci2030038
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2022-07
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V. Perrone;Timothy P. Gocha;P. Randolph-Quinney;Noemi Procopio
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作者：
V. Perrone;Timothy P. Gocha;P. Randolph-Quinney;Noemi Procopio
牙骨质环化（或 TCA）是一种依赖于牙骨质增量生长分析来估计死亡年龄和季节的技术。尽管存在许多争议，但它已被广泛采用为“黑匣子技术”。它在取证学方面的潜力需要进行这篇综述，其目的是从不同的角度为读者提供对 TCA 的已完成工作和已知信息的总体批判性综合。结果根据三个不同的主题划分：人类、动物和进化研究，以及生物学研究。对这些内容的总结和比较显示了该主题的复杂性、其局限性，以及科学界如何共同协作以进行改进。总体而言，很明显，TCA 在死亡年龄和季节估计方面的潜力是巨大的，并且（只要其生物学仍然得到解决和研究）就没有任何理由不认为该技术与用于生物分析的其他人类学方法一样有效。
Tooth Cementum Annulation (or TCA) is a technique that relies on the analysis of the incremental growth of dental cementum for age and season at death estimation. It has been extensively adopted as a “black box technique”, despite numerous controversies. Its potential in forensics called for this review, which aims to provide the reader with an overarching critical synthesis of what has been done and what is known about the TCA from different perspectives. Results have been divided according to three different themes: human, animal and evolutionary studies, as well as biological studies. The summary and comparison of these show the complexity of this topic, its limits, and how the scientific community can collectively collaborate for improvements. Overall, it is clear that the potential of the TCA is significant in terms of age and season at death estimation and that (as long as its biology is still addressed and researched for) there should not be any reason to not consider this technique as valid as the other anthropological methods adopted for biological profiling.