Discrepância documental e biológica na determinação de idade - relato de caso pericial.

Abstract

The estimation of age in living subjects, with a judicial purpose, is one of the most complex expertises in the field of legal dentistry and needs a multidisciplinary approach in order to determine a guaranteed period of time that indicates the chronological age of the person examined. The present study aimed to report an expert case study in which there was a biological and documentary discrepancy. The individual examined in this study presented himself as a Brazilian male, single, student and native of Sousa, Paraíba. The responsible escort reports that he was adopted as his son, but the lack of congruence between the date recorded on the birth certificate and the appearance of the individual led the responsible escort to seek the authorities for document rectification. Thereafter, the District Office of Sousa - Paraíba, requested through an official letter to the Nucleus of Medicine and Legal Dentistry, of the city of Patos/PB an expert examination for the estimation of age. Age estimation was performed using the method of Nicodemo, Moraes and Médici Filho (1974). The mineralization of the teeth was verified from a panoramic radiographic image. Thus, it was estimated the stage of each tooth analyzed and the corresponding time interval. It was concluded that the individual had a probable age between 8.86 years (106.4 months) and 10.04 years (120.5 months). This result shows a real divergence of the record obtained in his birth certificate, which pointed out the age of 16.3 years (196 months), demonstrating the importance of this expert analysis in the forensic and civil context.