Kagerer P, Grupe G
Institut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
Anthropol Anz. 2001;59(4):331-42.
Histological analysis of 91 roots from 80 freshly extracted teeth from patients with known calendar age and life-history parameters revealed that the validity of a chronological age-at-death diagnosis based on the count of incremental lines in human dental cementum is essentially dependent from two parameters: method of analysis, and pathological state of the investigated tooth. In this paper, we want to contribute to the establishment of a methodological standard procedure by comparison of our own results with otherwise published research designs. We conclude that as long as the necessary prerequisites are met, the quantitative analysis of cementum annulli will lead to a rather precise chronological age-at-death diagnosis. In addition, a qualitative analysis permits the ontogenetic dating of certain individual life-history parameters (e.g. previous pregnancies).
对80名已知日历年龄和生活史参数的患者新近拔除的91颗牙齿进行组织学分析，结果显示，基于人牙骨质中生长线计数的死亡时实足年龄诊断的有效性基本上取决于两个参数：分析方法和被研究牙齿的病理状态。在本文中，我们希望通过将我们自己的结果与其他已发表的研究设计进行比较，为建立一种方法学标准程序做出贡献。我们得出结论，只要满足必要的前提条件，对牙骨质年轮的定量分析将得出相当精确的死亡时实足年龄诊断。此外，定性分析可以确定某些个体生活史参数（如既往妊娠）的个体发育年代。
