BACKGROUND Dental age estimation in children plays an important role in forensic dentistry. The most commonly used method for age estimation was developed by Demirjian in 1973 on a French-Canadian sample. It generally overestimates dental age in many populations. International maturity standards were formed to obtain a predicted age with more confidence when ethnic origin was not available. O...

Dentistry has embraced technological advances in computeraided dentistry and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) for the past three decades since clinical dentistry demands that patients receive the highest quality of care in a timely and compassionate manner to do so [1]. Computer-aided dentistry has been employed to digitize dental structures and the oral cavity for the virtual design of s...

Dentistry has embraced technological advances in computeraided dentistry and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) for the past three decades since clinical dentistry demands that patients receive the highest quality of care in a timely and compassionate manner to do so [1]. Computer-aided dentistry has been employed to digitize dental structures and the oral cavity for the virtual design of s...

An update is provided of the literature on the role of odontology in human identification, based on a PubMed-Medline search of the last 5 years and using the terms: "forensic dentistry" (n = 464 articles), "forensic odontology" (n = 141 articles) and "forensic dentistry identification" (n = 169 articles). Apart from these initial 774 articles, others considered to be important and which were ge...

Dentistry has embraced technological advances in computeraided dentistry and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) for the past three decades since clinical dentistry demands that patients receive the highest quality of care in a timely and compassionate manner to do so [1]. Computer-aided dentistry has been employed to digitize dental structures and the oral cavity for the virtual design of s...

Dentistry has embraced technological advances in computeraided dentistry and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) for the past three decades since clinical dentistry demands that patients receive the highest quality of care in a timely and compassionate manner to do so [1]. Computer-aided dentistry has been employed to digitize dental structures and the oral cavity for the virtual design of s...

Forensic dentistry is the handling, examination and evaluation of dental evidence in criminal justice cases. Palatoscopy or rugoscopy gaining importance forensic due to many reasons, most important being that rugae are well protected oral cavity by cheeks arches. Rugae found be individualistic just like dermatoglyphics. The third factor they easy record. This article deals with various classifi...