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Dental cementum is a tissue of choice for the estimation of age at death in adult individuals as it continues deposition for the entirety of an individual's life. Previous works have devised regression formulas correlating cementum thickness to age at death. However, interpopulation variances are unknown, and it is therefore not clear whether regressions based on a single population are applicable to individuals with different ancestries.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Here, we use a sample (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200952) of teeth from individuals with known age at tooth extraction\/death of European, African, and East Asian ancestry to assess whether there are interpopulations differences in cementum growth rate. 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