Open AccessAssessment of correlation between dental calcification stages and skeletal maturity indicators
Author(s) -
Akshaya Ojha,
M. A. Prasanth,
Vikram Singh,
Tarun Sihag,
Varsha Bhati,
Himanshi Tomar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of forensic dental sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0975-2137
pISSN - 0975-1475
DOI - 10.4103/jfo.jfds_55_16
Subject(s) - calcification , radiography , medicine , wrist , dentistry , maturity (psychological) , panoramic radiograph , forensic odontology , orthodontics , stage (stratigraphy) , biology , anatomy , radiology , psychology , paleontology , developmental psychology
Assessment of age is a critical step in the identification of an individual in forensic cases. The hand-wrist radiographic evaluation and tooth development is also a useful measure of maturity because it represents a series of recognizable changes that occur in the same sequence from an initial event to a constant end point.