The off-season of dental cementum investigations. A critical appraisal of season-of-death prediction in medico-legal investigations

•Dental cementum-based methods are increasingly considered in forensic anthropology.•The season-of-death can be estimated based on the outermost cementum deposit.•Estimating season-of-death aids connecting with missing persons’ disappearance date.•Estimating death seasonality requires further research to meet forensic requirements.