Dental Radiographic/Digital Radiography Technology along with Biological Agents in Human Identification.

Mohsen Yazdanian,Reza Ranjbar,Mahdi Rahbar,Alexander Seifalian,Alireza Yazdanian,Shahryar Karami,Elahe Tahmasebi,Kamyar Abbasi,Mostafa Alam,Hamid Tebyaniyan,Heng Bo Jiang

doi:10.1155/2022/5265912

Abstract

The heavy casualties associated with mass disasters necessitate substantial resources to be managed. The unexpectedly violent nature of such occurrences usually remains a problematic amount of victims that urgently require to be identified by a reliable and economical method. Conventional identification methods are inefficient in many cases such as plane crashes and fire accidents that have damaged the macrobiometric features such as fingerprints or faces. An appropriate recognition method for such cases should use features more resistant to destruction. Forensic dentistry provides the most appropriate available method for the successful identification of victims using careful techniques and precise data interpretation. Since bones and teeth are the most persistent parts of the demolished bodies in sudden mass disasters, scanning and radiographs are unrepeatable parts of forensic dentistry. Forensic dentistry as a scientific method of human remain identification has been considerably referred to be efficient in disasters. Forensic dentistry can be used for either “sex and age estimation,” “Medical biotechnology techniques,” or “identification with dental records,” etc. The present review is aimed at discussing the development and implementation of forensic dentistry methods for human identification. For this object, the literature from the last decade has been searched for the innovations in forensic dentistry for human identification based on the PubMed database.

Highlights

IntroductionAn alarming rise in criminal and casualty incidences has been observed [1]
In the past decade, an alarming rise in criminal and casualty incidences has been observed [1]
Forensic dentistry or forensic odontology is defined as the knowledge of dentistry as Scanning related to the law and is one of three primary identifiers recognized by Interpol for victim identification in multicasualty incidents or mass disasters (MD) [2, 5]

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An alarming rise in criminal and casualty incidences has been observed [1]. The modern identification processes are very helpful in such cases These methods use microscopy and molecular examinations of the remained sources which often include the skull and teeth [9]. Forensic dentistry has significantly changed in the past decades from being occasionally used to playing a key role in identification procedures [14]. Since it is simple, userfriendly, and not expensive in comparison with other methods, forensic odontological comparison is considered one of the three principal identifiers designated by INTERPOL for use in identifying the victims of a multicasualty incident.

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