Identification plays a significant role in delivering justice to any medicolegal investigations. Within the process of law enforcement, Forensic odontology has vital identifying victims. In some complicated cases when other means investigation fails, identification by dentistry serves as prime source. wherein victims natural dentition was replaced prosthesis, prosthodontist forensic becomes cruc...

Introduction Forensic odontology may have been born at the Battle of Nancy in 1477, when the body of Charles the Bold was identified by the absence of a lower tooth, 1 or in 1835, when a gold denture helped identify the burned body of the Countess of Salisbury.

American Board of Forensic Odontology Standards and Guidelines for Evaluating Bitemarks will be reviewed in terms diagnosis human bite injuries on skin. ABFO Bitemark Analysis Comparison Algorithm used to discuss application guidelines. Application guidelines illustrated with case presentations.

A search for forensic odontology sites on the Internet revealed thousands of 'hits', of which many constituted dentists offering a private service on their homepages. Several organisations and associations were identified following extensive sifting through these addresses and, despite its growing acceptance in the forensic community, the resources available were superficial and of only moderat...

Forensic odontology and anthropology provide valuable support with regard to human identification. In some cases, when soft tissue is destroyed, carbonized or absent for whatever reason, bones and teeth become the only source of information about the identity of the deceased. In human identification, anything different, such as variation from normality, becomes an important tool when trying to ...

As we enter a new millennium, society is faced with fresh challenges in every conceivable area. Through the speciality of forensic odontology, dentistry plays a small but significant role in identification of individuals. Cryogenic Grinding is the act of cooling or chilling a material and then reducing it to a small particle size. DNA is extracted from human teeth with the help of cryogenic gri...