Racemization in enamel among different types of teeth from the same individual |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Susumu?OhtaniEmail author Rei?Ito Szilvia?Arany Toshiharu?Yamamoto |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Forensic Dental Medicine and Institute for Frontier Oral Science, Kanagawa Dental College, 82 Inaoka-cho Yokosuka, 238–8580 Kanagawa, Japan;(2) Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Kyushu Dental College, 2–6-1 Manazuru Kokurakita-ku , 803–8580 Kitakyushu Fukuoka , Japan;(3) Division of Forensic Sciences Department of Social Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, 1–1-1 Hondo, 010 Akita , Japan;(4) Department of Biology, Kanagawa Dental College, 82 Inaoka-cho Yokosuka, 238–8580 Kanagawa , Japan |
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Abstract: | We measured the quantity of D-aspartic acid (degree of racemization of aspartic acid) in the enamel of different types of teeth from the same individual. We studied the correlation between the degree of racemization and the time of formation of each particular tooth, as well as the applicability of the degree of racemization to estimation of chronological age. If the environmental condition of the teeth is the same, the degree of racemization is expected to be highest in teeth that completed formation in the earliest period of time. Different degrees of racemization in enamel were found among different types of teeth, even in the same individual. The degree of racemization in enamel was found to be higher in molars than in incisors, and showed a tendency that did not necessarily coincide with the time of formation. This seemed to be due to the fact that the environmental temperature was higher in the molar region located deeper in the oral cavity than the front region, and that enamel was more affected by breathing air than dentin because the D/L ratios in enamel were lower than those in dentin. Using enamel, a better estimation of chronological age was obtained from calculations based on the degree of racemization of each type of tooth than from all the different teeth together. However, these estimated ages were not better than those from dentin. |
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Keywords: | Enamel Aspartic acid racemization Intraindividual differences Age estimation |
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