... identification, dental age. American blacks, sex dimorphism "'Dental age" is one of just a few measures of physiologic development that is uniformly applicable from infancy through late adolescence [1,2]. This contrasts with the use of tooth eruption alone and is more broadly applicable than, say, the onset...

... with the specimens to be assessed. However, racial differences in areas such as skeletal growth and bone density have been reported, along with specific variations in the aging process, in the ribs of disparate populations. The present investigation examines metamorphosis in the sternal ribs of American blacks (N...