AN OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENT DENTAL AGING CHARTS OR ATLAS METHODS

Age estimation is of wider importance in Forensic medicine, not only for the purpose of identifying deceased victims but also in connection with crimes and accidents. Estimation of age by examining the living or skeletal and cadavers remains of an individual or population group has been a conventional primary identification process over the years. As in forensic Odontology, dental Atlas or a chart diagram or Atlas software with the Radio-graph of developing teeth that would give an estimate of chronological age would be ideal. Hereby the book explains the broad view of Atlas methods used for age estimation.