Abstract

*Dr. Maninder Kaur, Dr. Jyoti Mago, Dr. Jaspreet Kaur, Dr. Mandeep Kaur Sahota, Dr. Gurjeet Kaur, Dr. Amandeep Kaur

ABSTRACT

Age is one of the imperative factors, which play an significant role in every aspect of life. Person recognization is an important feature of forensic medicine and dentistry. Age, gender, race and many other factors are used for identification of a person. Chronological age, as recorded by registration of birth date, is referred throughout an individual’s life. Major dental clues once neglected are increasingly used to solve the crime. Age is estimated on the basis of chronological age, bone age, dental age, mental age, and others methods. Dental age is considered to be essential 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 indispensable 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 clinical, histological, and radiographical methods and its scope and limitation.