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ICMR Dental Standards

Definition

Indian Council of Medical Research benchmarks for dental eruption and development in Indian children, used alongside the Bagga atlas to provide population-appropriate reference data for Indian forensic dental age assessments.

Related terms

AlQahtani London Atlas
A 2010 dental developmental atlas covering birth to 23.5 years, constructed from a multi-ethnic London collection with known age at death; the...
Demirjian Stages
A seven-stage (A-G) scoring system for dental crown and root development applied to seven mandibular teeth; the maturity score derived from the...
Dental Eruption
The process by which a tooth moves through the alveolar bone and gingiva to emerge into the oral cavity. Eruption timing is...
Epiphyseal Fusion
The obliteration of the cartilaginous growth plate and bony union of the epiphysis with the diaphysis. Fusion sequence and timing form the...
Medial Clavicle Epiphysis
The last secondary ossification centre to fuse in the human skeleton, completing at 21 to 30 years depending on sex and population....
Moorrees-Fanning-Hunt Stages
A 13-stage system of dental crown and root development derived from the Fels Longitudinal Study (1963), applied to mandibular teeth and forming...
Scheuer-Black Framework
The reference system for developmental skeletal age estimation published by Louise Scheuer and Sue Black in 'Developmental Juvenile Osteology' (Academic Press, 2000)....
Schmeling Protocol
The multi-method age assessment framework (physical examination, dental radiograph, wrist radiograph, medial clavicle CT) developed by Andreas Schmeling and the AGFAD study...
Third Molar Variability
The wide interindividual and population variation in third molar development timing (eruption 16-22 years, root completion 18-25 years), which limits the third...

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