Abstract
Introduction: Dental age estimation is of supreme importance in the field of forensic science. There are numerous techniques to estimate the age of children and adults of various ethnic origins but none of them has been tried to estimate the age of individuals with disabilities. Materials and method: In this paper, we attempted to compare the dental ages of normal and disabled (deaf and dumb) children between 9 and 12 years. A sum of 76 children were considered for the study. The dental ages of both normal and disabled children were compared with London atlas of tooth development and eruption. The obtained results were statistically analysed by calculating their mean and standard deviation values. Results: We observed that there were obvious differences among the dental ages of normal and disabled children. Most of the children in the disabled group had a retarded dental development. Conclusion: Dental ages of disabled children differ from that of otherwise normal children. A bigger sample size with deeper investigations and studies on individuals with other disabilities at different regions of the world could confirm the fidelity of the study.
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