1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry
2Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, PGI, Chandigarh
3Additional Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, PGI, Chandigarh
4Assistant Professor Govt. Medical College, Chandigarh
*Corresponding Author: Dr Kumaran M, Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry Email: mku1983@gmail.com
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
Age is an essential identification parameter in the living and the dead. In case of decomposed remains the bones serve as a valuable source of information to establish the age. Age assessment by pubic symphysis is a common method used by the experts. The study was aimed to correlate the change in the morphological features present in the symphyseal surface of pubic bone in Haryana population with age progression and group them according to the ten phase system of Todd. In the present study the age interval of the various phases were comparable to the Todd age interval but there is overlapping of ages in different phases. The results of the present study were compared with studies conducted in India and abroad.
Pubic Symphysis, Todd Ten Phase method, Age, Haryana Population
