Background: Determination of age of majority is essential at the time of employment, marriage,fixation of criminal responsibility, judicial punishment, exercise of adult franchise etc. Determination of age forms a major help in solving many medico legal issues. The study of epiphyseal union of bone is considered a reasonable scientific & accepted method of estimation of age by the court of law all over the world. Pisiform begins to ossify in the ninth or tenth year in females, and the twelfth in males. The lower end of radius ossifies by 20 years. So there is a gap in the age from 12to 20 years for which another suitable site like the elbow region need to be studied and data combined for filling the lacunae when wrist joint alone is considered