Review Article
Year : 2018 | Volume : 3 | Issue : 2 | Page : 50 - 54
Commonly used Different Dental Age Estimation Methods in Children and Adolescents
Roshan K Chaudhary, Nagabhushana Doggalli
From the Department of Forensic Odontology, JSS Dental College and Hospital,
JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka, India
Address for correspondence:
Dr. Roshan K Chaudhary, E‐mail: samroshanchaudhary23@gmail.com
Abstract
Age is an important factor for all the human beings whether it is living or dead. It is useful for day-to-day life works such as educational purpose, governmental purpose, job purpose, medical purpose, crime investigation, court of law, clinical practices, research, and reconstructive identification purpose in case of dead individuals. Of many procedures for age estimation such as chronological age, bone age, mental age, and others, dental age estimation is considered to be an important procedure as tooth development shows less inconstancy than other developmental features or in relation to chronological age and also teeth are most tough and resilient part of the skeleton. High survivability of teeth exposed to severe physical factors, such as fire and water immersion, make assessment of developing teeth the method of choice in forensic age estimation. Age estimation using teeth can be divided into three categories of age groups: prenatal, neonatal, and early postnatal period; children and adolescents; and adults. Children are defined as the human beings from birth to puberty and adolescents as from puberty to approximately age of 20 years. Hence, the motive is to overview for dental age estimation in children and adolescents from different techniques.
Key Words: Adolescents, calcification, children, dental age estimation, eruption, root development
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How to cite this article:
Chaudhary RK, Doggalli N. Commonly used different dental age estimation methods in children and adolescents. Int J Forensic Odontol 2018;3:50-4.
