Medico-Legal Update - An International Journal
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

Modification in Gustafson's method: Age estimation

  • Author:
  • Balwant Rai1,, S.K. Dhattarwal2, S.C. Anand3, Simmi Kharb4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 7 to 9

1Government Dental College, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Rohtak, Haryana (INDIA).

2Forensic Medicine, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Rohtak, Haryana (INDIA).

3(Brig.) Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Orthodontics.

4Bio-Chemistry.

*Reprint requests: Dr. Balwant Rai, C/o Dr. S.K. Dhattarwal, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt. B.D.S. PGIMS, Rohtak. E-mail: drbalwantraissct@rediffmail.com, Mobile No.: 091-9812185855.

Abstract

Our research is based on the confrontation of modifications of Gustafson's aging method with the aims of producing of up to date. Identification tables for practical forensic dentistry. The identification tables were produced using the mutual relationship of sum of point values such as the abrasion, the secondary dentine, the secondary cementum, transparency and age.

Keywords

Teeth, estimation of age, identification tables, regression equation