A Comparative Evaluation of Gustafson’s Formula and New Formula for Age Estimation in India – A Forensic Study

Abstract

The choice to use teeth for age determination is well accepted due to their longevity ability of being resilient to change. The total of 228 extracted teeth collected from the patients visited to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, NIMS Dental College, Jaipur, the teeth were without dental fillings and without and/or cavity selected. The known age was from 21 to 70 years with the average age of 43.46 years. For age estimation the method according to Gustafson was used. Every tooth was subject to longitudinal section of the midpulpal area. The following dental parameters were studied in each case: attrition, periodontal bone loss, root translucency, secondary dentin deposition, cementum apposition and root resorption. Total scores of different parameters plotted against the chronological age and regression formula was obtained. Using this formula ages were estimated, Gustafson formula was also applied in the same scores and ages estimated. The results of the chronological and estimated age by both formulae have been statistically compared using Pearson's correlation and regression analysis. The results showed strong correlation (0.92; p<0.001) between chronological and estimated age by using both formulae. We found the mean error of ±5.47 by using newly derived and formula and ±6.35 by Gustafson's formula. As a result of our study it was found that newly derived formula provides better results in comparison with Gustafson's formula in Indian population. A positive correlation between age and total scores of physiological changes also revealed.

Konik Işınlı Bilgisayarlı Tomografi ile Yaş Tayininde Diş Seçimi: Diş Kadranları Simetrik mi?

“…Daha sonra çok sayıda çalışmacı tarafından Gustafson'un belirlediği kriterlerden esinlenerek oluşturulan modifiye metotlar kullanılarak dental yaş tayini çalışmaları gerçekleştirilmiştir (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27). Yapılan literatür taramasında, Gustafson metodu veya modifikasyonları kullanılarak gerçekleştirilen çalışmaların iki boyutlu görüntüleme yöntemleri olan periapikal veya panoramik radyografiler kullanılarak gerçekleştirildiği ve sağ ve sol kadranlardaki dişler arasında yaş tayini açısından farklılık olup olmadığının araştırılmadığı görülmektedir (11,26,28,29).…”

Oral pathology in forensic investigation

“…modified Gustafson's method by multiple regression analysis and formulated a more accurate formula, Y = 5.6 X + 1.81 for age estimation with a standard error of 6.35 years. [ 39 ] Bajpai et al . conducted modified Gustafson's technique in an Indian population with a sample of 228 extracted teeth and Kashyap and Koteswara Rao are forerunners of modified Gustafson's method in the Indian population in 1990.…”

“…conducted modified Gustafson's technique in an Indian population with a sample of 228 extracted teeth and Kashyap and Koteswara Rao are forerunners of modified Gustafson's method in the Indian population in 1990. [ 39 40 ] Bajpai et al . established a positive correlation between age and total scores of physiological dental changes.…”

“…established a positive correlation between age and total scores of physiological dental changes. [ 39 ] In the present review, the author has excluded studies of Gustafson's method using radiography which comes under oral medicine and radiology speciality.…”

Legal reporting in Forensic odontology

“…Examination of teeth in many ways forms a unique part of human body as they are most durable and resilient part of the skeleton [1]. The science dealing with establishing identity of a person by teeth is popularly known as Forensic Odontology or Forensic Dentistry.…”