Forensic odontology radiography and imaging in disaster victim identification

Middleton, Alain; Alminyah, Abdullah; Apostol, Mario; Boel, Lene W. T.; Brough, Alison; Develter, Wim; Heinze, Sarah; Makino, Yohsuke; Mulcahy, Louise; O’Donnell, Chris; Gorincour, Guillaume; Hofman, Paul; Iino, Morio; Oesterhelweg, Lars; Ranson, David; Robinson, Claire; Ruder, Thomas D.; Rutty, Guy N.; Singh, Mansharan Kaur Chainchel; Villa, Chiara; Viner, Mark; Woźniak, Krzysztof; Yoshida, M.

doi:10.1016/j.jofri.2016.08.003

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“…INTERPOL recommends taking bitewing radiographs, periapical images of upper and lower molars, premolars and incisors on both sides and separate images of teeth with distinctive features such as root canal fillings or prosthetic dental crowns [3]. When taking periapical images, a parallel technique is recommended rather than a bisecting-angle technique [19,20]. INTERPOL also recommends PM orthopantomogram (OPG) radiographs [3], but the logistical issue in obtaining these precludes their use in most instances unless special equipment is available.…”

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“…Critically, they can reduce the incidence of removal of lower jaws as part of the PM dental examination process since details of the teeth from both jaws can be viewed without the remains being disturbed [43]. The data can be segmented and reformatted in different ways to produce different views of the scanned dentition including 3 D visualizations of hard tissues, simulations of 3 D X-ray images, or various dental 2 D images [20,28].…”

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Forensic odontology in DVI: current practice and recent advances

Forrest

2019

Forensic Sciences Research

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Forensic odontology frequently plays a significant role in identification of the victims of multi-fatality disasters, but not in all. It depends on adequate dental remains surviving the disaster and on the availability of dental records to be successful. This paper describes current practice in the techniques of identification in forensic odontology and outlines recent advances that are moving into the mainstream. KEY POINTSForensic odontology plays a key role in mass disaster victim identification (DVI) when good-quality antemortem (AM) dental records are available. Images including radiographs, computerized tomography (CT) data and three-dimensional (3D) scan data are considered more reliable AM records than written dental charts and odontograms. Interpretation, transcription and comparison of dental datasets are complex processes that should be undertaken only by trained dental professionals. The future of forensic odontology DVI techniques is likely to include the use of 3D datasets for comparison.

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Forensic odontology in DVI: current practice and recent advances

Forrest

2019

Forensic Sciences Research

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“…The significance and estimation of radiographs should never be thought little of as they assume a significant function in recognition by getting positive identifiable proof, just as they assume a part in age assessment, by the quantity of teeth erupted 25 . Waleed et al carried out a comparative study between students and dentists, and found out that 100% of students maintained intraoral periapical radiographs whereas 8% of students and 6% of dentists obtained bitewing radiographs 26 .…”

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Receptiveness of Maintaining Dental Records for Forensic and Other Matters

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Zahid²,

Amjad³

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Background: Dental records assume a significant part as these might be utilized in identification of dead or missing humans, as proof in court and in criminological dentistry as discoveries of posthumous assessments are contrasted with antemortem dental evidence that have been well-maintained. Aim: To evaluate the awareness regarding significance of dental records and receptiveness of the practitioner toward maintenance in proper pattern. Method: This cross sectional descriptive was carried out between September and December, 2019 at established dental institution of Lahore. A questionnaire containing 16 close ended question was formulated and distributed to all the participants. We seek approval from ethical committee of Lahore Medical & Dental College. Statistics was investigated through SPSS version 20; Pearson correlation coefficient was utilized. Results: A total of 350 dental practitioners took part in this study, statistics revealed that 68.3 % were familiar with importance of maintaining records. Though 96 % dental professionals record the full name, age and gender of patients, 94% explore medical history, 78% record various developmental dental anomalies and 39 % notice decayed, missed or filled teeth; but in general 55.4% percent maintain the patient-related correspondence. Amongst them 33.5% of dental professionals preserve the dental file, 40% percent conserve the radiographs, 29% photographs of the patients, and just 10% of the dentists preserve the casts. Duration of conserving dental records found inconstant; 40% sustain all the patient-related correspondence for a month or less, 21.20 % for a half year, 18.4 % for a year, 6.4% as long as 5 years and just 1 % for around 10 years. Conclusion: Information and receptiveness of maintaining records among the dental professionals of Lahore is inadequate, improvement can be accomplished by education and training. Keywords: dental records, identification, forensic dentistry, patient chart

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“…Reconstruction of a virtual Dental Panoramic Radiograph (Tomograph) may assist with dental eruption aging, the location and analysis of dental restoration and consideration of historical tooth loss, presence of un-erupted teeth, root morphology and pathology analysis and smile configuration (5).…”

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