Dental Age Assessment : Unveiling Fascination

Dental age assessment is an important aspect in forensic odontology as well as for health professional. Precise age estimation is of particular interest for Pediatric dentist and Orthodontists in diagnosing, predicting and treating various stomatognathic dysmorphologies. Based on growing demands for age assessment in living individuals as well as in dead subjects, Researchers have tested and established various techniques including methods based on bone and teeth development but yet literature lacks standardized guidelines.Teeth, which provides life history of an individual contributes as reliable means of determining age from foetal stage to the old age. This book is collectanea of various methods for dental age assessment available for neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults. Along with this it also focuses on selection criteria among varied methods. Essence of the book is assemblage for unveiling fascination.