DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i10.054

Pages: 4088-4091

The estimation of age is an important activity and is commonly carried in medico legal area. Assessment of age is often required while administering justice to an individual involved in civil and criminal litigation. The failure of third molar eruption is a quite common condition and the extraction of impacted third molar teeth is carried out as routine surgical procedure in dental departments. The present study was aimed to determine the number of third molars per person with their eruption status. The present study was carried out at ratna dental hospital and included sample of 210 subjects in the age range 17-30 years, for subject orthopantomograph or Intra oral Periapical Radiograph was taken. To assess the developmental stages of third molars; the staging system described by Nolla CM was used. The results showed that 36.36% of third molars are completely erupted, 47.27% partially erupted, and 16.36% are unerupted in male while 35% of third molars are completely erupted, 43% partially erupted, and 22% are unerupted in Female.