1Principal & Professor, Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka, India
2Professor & Head, Dept. of Oral Medicine & Radiology, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka, India
3Associate Professor, Dept of Orthodontics, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding author email: raviortho11@gmail.com
Online published on 11 April, 2014.
Teeth and dental restorations are resistant to destruction by fire and the elements are therefore useful in identification. This permits accurate identification of a missing child or remains. The Rural Residential free school at Suttur houses a large number of inmates and hence dental records are kept for their identification.
Estimation of Age of children.
Orthopantomographs were used to study for estimation of age of children, using a Nolla's method of dental age estimation.
In this study Nolla's method underestimated the chronological age of the individuals and underestimation of age increased as the chronological age of the individuals increased.
Studies involving larger sample size and population specific data needs to be developed.
Age Estimation by teeth, Forensic Dentistry, Nolla's Method, Orthopantomographs
