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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica
On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015
Abstract
BARRIGA SALAZAR, Cristopher; RIVERA MARTINEZ, César and SUAZO GALDAMES, Iván. Datación mediante racemización del ácido aspártico en dentina humana. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.1, pp.35-41. ISSN 2215-5287.
Determining the age at death based on aspartic acid racemization (AAR) in human dentin has been applied successfully in forensic dentistry for many years. The use of this procedure in the dentine provides a simple and cost effective method which can achieve an accuracy of plus or minus 3 years. Today this determination is not standardized, inconsistencies must be resolved to successfully implement the technique for age determination in cases of forensic interest
Keywords : Aspartic acid racemization; dentin; identification; age estimation.