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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

A new study has unveiled the crucial role of low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1) in skeletal ...

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).