1Demonstrator, Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh
2Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Patiala
3Assistant Professor, Department of Maxillary and Oral Surgery, Government Dental College, Patiala
The importance of dental identification increases within the last years due to mass disasters as a result of natural phenomenon such as cyclones, earthquakes, floods and volcanic explosions and airplane accidents, industrial accidents and terror acts. Teeth are becoming an important part in many fields related to Forensics and many medicolegal solutions are possible just by studying teeth. In my study, I used ground section of teeth to estimate age of person above 25 years and the procedures I adopted and the difficulties I came across while preparing these ‘ground section’ of teeth are being highlighted in this paper.
