The knowledge of dental age, bone age and chronological age will provide
more comprehensive patient care in dentistry.There is justifiable
emphasis on the relationship between dental, bone and chronological
ages.Medicine and Dentistry has currently embarked upon an era of
biological ages (dental and bone age)that is drastic departure from
legal age (chronological age). Dental age and bone age is useful in
dentistry to formulate treatment plan and it's useful as an additional
source of information in the field of Orthopedics, Orthodontics,
Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Hematology, Forensics and Anthropology. In
this text the step by step method is designed to determine dental and
bone age based upon tooth calcification and skeletal maturation of hand
wrist bones. This book contains well illustrated high quality pictures,
diagrams and graphs which provide vivid and lucid details. Thus, the
book is oriented to provide essential knowledge and understanding of
bone and dental maturation, and it caters to the needs of medical and
dental Undergraduates and also very helpful to the Post graduate
research students in medicine and dentistry to carry out research on
dental age and bone age.