Teeth may be the reason why some underage asylum seekers are detained in maximum-security adult facilities. Border officials are using controversial dental science to make age determinations. (hereandnow)
Many unaccompanied migrants who claim to be under 18 years old must undergo a dental exam, after which some of them may be mistakenly moved to maximum-security facilities with adults instead of youth shelters with other children and teenagers., schooling, on-site social services, and mental health care they would have received at the youth shelters, The Washington Post reports.
Elizabeth DiGangi, associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton University in New York, is among those experts. Professor DiGangi specializes in teeth and says that dental age estimations are flawed because they rely on the most variable tooth in the entire mouth — the wisdom tooth. The reason? “Because of your individual genetics, because of environmental variables, that maybe you have been exposed to that others have not been exposed to,” she says. “Even something like your level of psychosocial stress, all of those things are going to impact how close that relationship is between your biological age and your chronological age.”
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