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Nowadays there are many methods available for dental age estimation: morphological, radiological, biochemical. Some methods require sample sectioning while other non-destructive methods are more appropriate for use in paleodontology. Children's dental age assessment is based on phases in growth and development of the deciduous and permanent dentition, while age assessment in the adult dentition is based upon changes in the structure of hard dental tissue caused by aging. Dental age calculating software enables automated age calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Estimation of sex is one of the most important procedures in the identification of an unknown person. Teeth are a potential source of information in that process. Estimation of sex in paleodontology is based on two approaches: visual inspection and statistical analysis. Many techniques have been developed within these two approaches. Forensic dentistry and paleodontology are two disciplines that share common observation platforms and methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A biography can be defined as a detailed description of a person's life. It includes facts about the birth, education, work, relationships, health and death of the subject. Some biographies also give us insight into a subject's experience of these events. Biography presents a subject's life story and it is usually non-fiction. When gaps exist, fiction may be used to portray certain aspects of that person's life. Odontobiography is a kind of biography based on analysis of the teeth and mouths of living or dead people. In method, odontobiography is quite similar to dental profiling in forensic dentistry, but with a significant difference in the aim. The aim of dental profiling is to establish somebody's identity. The aim of making somebody's odontobiography is to reconstruct the life of an individual and to provide as many details as possible from her/his life by analysis of the oral environment. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief insight into odontobiography as way of meta-interpretation of results of forensic and bioarcheological research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]