Assessment of Cervical Vertebrae Maturation Stages and the Accuracy of Age Estimation Methods in North Indian Population with Digital Lateral Cephalogram

• Published in: Journal of the Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 448 - 454
• Main Authors: Kohli, Ravshish Kaur, Arora, Manpreet, Puri, Pooja
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi, India SAGE Publications 01.12.2024
• Subjects: cervical vertebrae maturation; Age estimation; skeletal maturation age; chronological age; correlation; radiographic method

Age estimation is mainly used for identification of unknown individuals in large-scale disasters, civil and criminal crimes, illegal immigration, child marriage, and juvenile cases. In many medico-legal cases, the age of an individual needs to be determined using population-specific reference criter...