AGE ESTIMATION BY CORRELATION OF PHYSICAL AND DENTAL WITH RADIOLOGICAL FINDINGS
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 94
Abstract
BACKGROUND Age estimation is of paramount importance and requires special attention in medico-legal cases. In developing countries like India, because of illiteracy and ignorance regarding the importance of official records like birth and death, vast majority of population fail to give information of such vital events to the appropriate authorities entitled with these jobs. Determination of the age of an individual from physical findings, development of secondary sexual characteristics, dental status and the fusion of the ossification centres is a well-accepted fact in the field of Medical and Legal profession. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was carried out on 102 living subjects, (sample size was decided by pilot project), between the age group of 10- 70 years, brought to Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SVN Govt. Medical College, Yavatmal for age determination. Age determination was done by correlation of Physical- Dental with Radiological findings by significantly minimising range in years. Each individual was examined for build, scalp hairs, axillary hairs, voice (in both sexes), prominence of Adam’s apple, facial hairs, development of genitals (in males), and date of menarche, regularity of menses, breast development (in females) as per- Tanner stages of Breast development, Pubic hair growth for both sexes and Genital development for boys. The oral cavity was examined for number of teeth erupted and any abnormalities in dentition. X-ray of the oral cavity and various joints was taken. Pearson Correlation was used to assess correlation between age estimation by P4 computer using STATA 10.1, 2009 version software. RESULTS Very strong correlation (0.9104) observed between Reference age for pubic hairs and final age. CONCLUSION Height or weight alone cannot be considered as a good parameter for determination of age. Highly significant p-value (p<0.0001) was found between Tanner stages of pubic hair development compared with Physical-Dental age, Radiological age and Final age. Very strong correlation found between age estimated by Physical-Dental findings and Radiological findings. Parameters like secondary sexual characters, dental eruption status and ossification status, together gives more reliable estimation of age as compared to studying them individually.
Authors and Affiliations
Trishul O. Padole, Manish B. Shrigiriwar, Anil K Batra, Sachin J Gadge, Mahesh Sable
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