Dental age estimation methods-A review

Abstract

Age is one of the essential factors, which play an important role in every aspect of life. Person identification is an important aspect of forensic medicine and dentistry. Age, gender, race, and so on is used for identification of a person. Chronological age, as recorded by registration of birth date, is referred throughout an individual’s life. Age is an important factor in clinical practice; research and court of law. Major dental clues once neglected are increasingly used to solve the crime. Age is estimated on the basis of chronological age and bone age, dental age, mental age, and others. Dental age is considered to be vital as tooth development shows less variability than other developmental features and also low variability in relation to chronological age. Hence, dental age is considered to be vital in establishing the age of an individual. Different morphological stages of mineralization correlate with the different developmental stages. This paper reviews various aspects of age estimation like morphological, biochemical, and radiographical methods and its scope and limitation.

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