Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Assoc. Hospitals, New Delhi - 110001.
Study was conducted in LHMC & Associated Smt Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi to estimate age from central maxillary incisor by calculating the index value of root translucency. Total number of cases studied was one hundred and fifty. The aims of the study were to evaluale the degree of root translucency as objectively as possible, neutralizing the role of oral pathology and its correlation with age.
Age estimation, incisor, translucency, index values
