Adult teeth are worn down by chewing, and sometimes the amount a skeleton’s teeth are worn down can be used to estimate age. However, factors like a rough diet can mean an inaccurate age estimate.

In some cases, he compares the skeletal DNA to DNA from the mother. Sometimes injuries can be matched to X rays or diseases traced to scars on certain bones. Lines on the teeth, for example, can ...

Much, much less than a chest X-ray. And it's pretty easy and pretty safe. Well, as screening tools, there are ways of measuring bone density at other skeletal sites, such as the heel. And I think ...

Researchers at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering ...

The process of remodeling – as experts say, is normal as you age and with every passing decade, your entire skeleton ... low-dose X-ray that helps assess the mineral content of the bones in ...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, or formerly DEXA) is a technique used to measure bone mineral density (BMD). The preferred regions for BMD measurement are lumbar spine, proximal femur and whole ...

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.

Peripheral skeleton (wrist and heel): DXA, QCT, single-energy x-ray absorptiometry ... surprising because there are many contributors to bone strength apart from BMD (see next section).