Forensic Dentistry : Principles and procedures of identifying a dead person using Dental Information
It is quite a complicated principle to go through all the methods at the same time. But in principle, we first need to investigate the Teeth in detail. This will be done by way of taking x rays & photographs and make casts. So to summarize the goal is to find the best in depth information from a dead person’s mouth. Most people’s teeth differ slightly even if no fillings have been inserted. There are slight differences in position of angulations, with respect to size & shape. When someone has a dead body to deal with you seriously don’t know anything about, the best way is to start collecting the maximum possible information. This is the best method in spite of having Dental records & X rays produced by the police. In these cases the information that we derive is the m...