Year : 2021

Volume : Volume 12

Issue : Issue 4

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Ankit Patel
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Abstract

Background: Age estimation is essential for various reasons including legal, criminal, humanitarian, and social grounds. It can be either based on the dental (tooth) identification or by ante mortem records. With the help of forensic odontology now it has become easier to estimate the age in a very less time. Although age can be estimated by various methods, each method has an error rate which suggests its accuracy. In this article, we will discuss different radiographic methods of age estimation from teeth.

Keywords: Dental age estimation, Forensic odontology, Radiographic methods.