Does increased staging complexity influence expert agreement in dental age estimation?

Eighteen forensic practitioners used two dental development staging systems to assess tooth maturity on radiographs, with results showing high consistency within individual observers and strong agreement between observers, though confusion between adjacent stages was the primary source of disagreement.

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