Tehran University
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In the forensic medicine studies one of the most significant factors to recognize individual identities; is determining the age of the person, because this factor can help to detect more facts about identity.
Using of fingerprints, studies about hematology, special elements on face and body, special hair color and skin, nails and teeth and genetic studies and DNA are the most significant devices to recognize individual identities in the hands of forensic medicine and offence specialties. among them teeth because of its strength and stability, lack of rapid dental decay and endure even under bad ecological condition and environment significantly can help to specialties in this field. Lack of recognition identity from body burn, breaking up of body, to be torn by animals and to be mutilated bodies is one of the concerns of forensic medicine physicians. Children and particularly infants due to lack of body evolution, and common skeleton features between bisexual infants, removing the end of limbs that are findable rapidly and due to delicacy and smallness and also lack of delivering real information from relatives and friends is considered as a major problems to recognize identity in forensic medicine. this paper intends to diagnosis real age of children with considering the number of grown teeth in their oral and judges with the least error for determining age and children's identity.
Forensic medicine, milk teeth, children's identity