Manjunatha B S, Soni Nishit K
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, K M Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Pipariya, Vadodara, India.
J Forensic Dent Sci. 2014 May;6(2):73-6. doi: 10.4103/0975-1475.132526.
The developing dentition is used to assess maturity and estimate the age in many disciplines including anthropology, archeology, forensic science, pediatric dentistry and orthodontics. There is evidence that dental development is less effected than skeletal development by malnutrition and hormonal disorders. There are two methods of dental age assessment, radiographically and by clinically visualization of eruption of teeth. The clinical method to assess dental age is based on the emergence of teeth in the mouth. This method is more suitable since it does not require any special equipment, expertise and is more economical. Tooth formation is the best choice for estimating the age as variations are less as compared to other development factors. Eruption of teeth is one of the changes observed easily among the various dynamic changes that occur from the formation of teeth to the final shedding of teeth. The times of eruption of teeth are fairly constant and this can be made use of in ascertaining the average age of eruption of the tooth. Assessment of age of an individual by examination of teeth is one of the accepted methods of age determination.
在包括人类学、考古学、法医学、儿童牙科学和正畸学在内的许多学科中,发育中的牙列被用于评估成熟度和估计年龄。有证据表明,与骨骼发育相比,营养不良和激素紊乱对牙齿发育的影响较小。有两种评估牙齿年龄的方法,即通过X光片和临床观察牙齿萌出情况。临床评估牙齿年龄的方法基于口腔中牙齿的萌出情况。这种方法更合适,因为它不需要任何特殊设备,也不需要专业知识,而且更经济。牙齿形成是估计年龄的最佳选择,因为与其他发育因素相比,其变化较小。牙齿萌出是从牙齿形成到最终脱落的各种动态变化中容易观察到的变化之一。牙齿萌出的时间相当恒定,这可用于确定牙齿的平均萌出年龄。通过检查牙齿来评估个体年龄是公认的年龄确定方法之一。