Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Age is one of the essential factors in establishing the identity of the person.It plays an important role in forensic medicine, clinical dentistry and archaeology.Age estimation is crucial in medico legal cases and importance in forensic medicine, not only for identifying deceased victims but also in connection with crimes and accidents.Age estimation of unknown human bodies is very important in the setting of a crime investigation as well as mass disaster.The age for the individual can be assessed as skeletal, morphological, secondary sex character and dental age.This paper reviews various dental age estimation methods that have been used by the scientist in order to help the identification of remains.
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4244772498