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Males and females were equally distributed (1\/1) in the sample. The dental status of each patient was different. The sample\u2019s age ranged from 9 to 84 years of age, with a mean age of 48.87 years (\u00b116.14 yrs). The methodology employed beta versions of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) developed by the University of Zagreb. Separate CNNs were trained on 4000 panoramic radiographs: one for sex estimation and another for age estimation. The AI program overestimated the subjects\u2019 age on average by 4.16 years. A statistically significant correlation was found between true and estimated sex (p-value &lt; 0.001). In males, the rate of agreement was 56.36%, while for females it was 89.47% (z-test for two proportions; p-value &lt; 0.001). For the overall sample, Kappa = 73.21%, indicating a very good agreement. 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