Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2017

ANATOMY OF MAXILLARY CENTRAL INCISORS IN SEX DERTERMINATION

Dr. Sarbada Makaju, Dr. Nirjalla Shrestha, Dr. B. P Powar

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 Back–ground; Nowadays forensic medicine has become one of the cheap and easy methods to determine the gender. All the parts of the human body get damaged by bacteria and fire except the teeth. Teeth is consider as the hard skeleton which don’t damage in terms of bacterial decomposition and fire. Out the all 32 human teeth the maxillary central incisors are more accessible and can be used for sex identification. Objectives; To determine the gender by measuring the length and eadth of the maxillary central incisors. And also to do the comparisons between the maxillary central incisors. Methods A cross–sectional study was done in total 118 dental patients. Out of that 59 female and 59 male respectively. The data were collected in the Manipal teaching hospital. All the measurements were done by the instrument– venier calipers. Results; Both the length and eathe of male is greater than the female. Statically the length of the central incisors are highly significant. Interpretation & Conclusion; They are many methods to determine the gender in forensic medicine. Whereas the length and the eadth of the maxillary central incisors can be used for sex determination. Economically, this methods is the cheapest and less time consuming. 

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Dr. Sarbada Makaju, Dr. Nirjalla Shrestha, Dr. B.P Powar, ANATOMY OF MAXILLARY CENTRAL INCISORS IN SEX DERTERMINATION, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾5 | May‾2017

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