*Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SGT Medical College, Hospital and Research Institute, Budhera, Distt. Gurgaon, Haryana. E-mail: brdhdahiya54@gmail.com
**Sr. Lecture, Dept. of Oral Pathology, PDM Dental College, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
***Prof & Head, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh
Parents consider tooth eruption as an important event in the child's development, and they have often showed their concern about the timing of eruption of teeth. However, it has been suggested in the literature that standards for tooth emergence should be derived from the population in which they are to be applied because factors related to emergence may vary considerably in both dentitions and BMI. Present study was done to find out average age from eruption of teeth in general and to compare relationship between age and BMI. For these 658 school-going children of age group 5 years to 15 years were studied for the eruption of permanent teeth with relation to age and BMI. Out of these 658 cases, 330 were males and 328 were females. It was found that in most cases the permanent teeth erupted earlier in the females than males and that the eruption of teeth was earlier in mandible (lower jaw) than in maxilla (upper jaw) and are consistent with age and BMI.
Molars, Age estimation, Teeth, BMI, Children, Upper Jaw
