Oral Health and Dentistry

Forensic Dentistry

Session 20: Forensic Dentistry

Forensic Dentistry is formally known as “Dentistry as applied to the law”. Forensic Dentistry is one amongst the foremost appreciated and exciting subspecialties of Dentistry. Based on Situations a Forensic dentist practitioner encounter vary from civil problems like identification of deceased people UN agency, by the virtue of circumstances of death or advanced decomposition, cannot be visually known, to identification of mass-disaster victims, to criminal cases that involve dental proof, like bite marks and oral injuries. Forensic medical specialty is the correct handling, examination, and analysis of dental proof, which can be then presented within the interest of justice. The proof which will be derived from teeth is the age and identification of the person to whom the teeth belong. This is often done using dental records as well as radiographs, ante-mortem and post-mortem images and DNA.