Design and development of Dental Identification System in Forensic Medicine

Introduction Nowadays, dental identification has become importance in forensic medicine; nevertheless, it has some limitations. There are insufficient standards for both dental documentation and electronic dental chart systems necessary for human identification. It is difficult to gather complete dental data for each individual. The huge quantity and redundancy of related documentation requires an abundant amount of identification time. Moreover, there is a shortage of qualified personnel. Purposes To design and develop Intelligent Dental Identification System (IDIS) that will be useful in assisting dentists regardless of their affiliation to forensic odontology. Setting The Dental Department of Police General Hospital of Thailand. Subjects A random selection of 500 patients were chosen and simulated to create a population of 3,000 patients. From the original 500 patients, 100 were randomly selected to create a sample of 600 unidentifiable subjects with either complete or incomplete dental information. Design Action Research. Methods Attempts were made to identify 600 unknown subjects utilizing 13 nonredundant identification models designed to support a variation within the data structure of each unidentified individual and analyze the data that were poorly characterized mathematically. The 13 models were divided into 3 subgroups: elementary method (6 models), moderate method (4 models), and advanced method (3 models). นิพนธ์ต้นฉบับ