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S Keiser-Nielsen

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PubMed1989

[Copenhagen Dental School Department of Forensic Dentistry--25 years of activity].

The Dept. of Forensic Odontology at the Royal Dental College of Copenhagen opened on 1 January 1964. The present article is a short survey of the case load handled over the following 25 years. Table 1 shows the distribution of single cases: the first two columns (U-D = unknown dead persons) in that a total of 444 postmortem dental descriptions were made (by oral autopsy) and that 255 of them led to dental identification; the next two columns (K-S = known missing persons) indicate that a total of 538 antemortem dental descriptions were established (mostly by extraction from private practitioners' records and radiographs), 255 of them being those that led to the already mentioned identifications. The column marked "B-M" shows the number of bite mark cases handled, while the column marked "A-E" concerns dental age evaluation of children adopted from or immigrated from areas with questionnable (if not totally missing) birth registration. The column marked "Var" lists a number of cases that did not fit into the other categories. Table 2 is a survey of the six airplane crashes and three hotel fires that occurred during the same 25 years: the first column shows the total number of victims, the second column the number of victims we were allowed to examine, and the third column the resulting number of dental identifications.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1975

There are no two cases alike.

A number of routine cases are reviewed: 1. A skull with a canine porcelain crown nicely glued in line was considered a study object, not a case of actual forensic interest (Fig. 1). 2. A murder victim was identified as a certain young girl; records including radiographs and plaster models showed no inconsistencies, but at least 28 concordant traits, among them characteristics in a root-filled central incisor (Fig. 2). 3. The body of a young suicide could be identified by means of one intraoral radiograph taken prior to one extraction, the only treatment listed in his dental record (Fig. 3). 4. After a fire, an unmarked rubber denture was found among debris; it showed burning along the distal palatal edge, so could not have been in the mouth of the owner during the fire. Being so completely deformed, it had to be discarded as evidence. 5. Another denture, removed from the mouth of a victim of the same fire, showed typical burning of the frontal parts, but also a stripe of burning along the midline (Fig. 4); accordingly, this victim must have inhaled flames before he died. 6. An old woman disappeared; in her home, police found an unmarked full lower denture left behind on her bed. When recovered dead several months later, this woman carried a full upper denture but no lower. Dental experts were not involved in this case but later saw both dentures; they had been made at different times and occluded badly. Did this woman have two sets? Or did the lower denture maybe originate from her murderer? The author urges that the FDI design an international system of denture marking. 7. A man was found murdered with an axe; police experts had reason to believe that he might have been executed somewhere else, but tooth 12 (Fig. 6)---found lying loose under the head---showed marks which proved that it had been exarticulated by one of the axe blows (Fig. 5). Consequently, the recovery site was also the execution site.

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Dental identification: certainty V probability.

The article attempts to explain that the dental expert cannot base his identification of an unknown body on the relative frequency of occurrence of any singular dental feature, its particular discrimination potential. Instead, he must make a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the combination of features involved. The author submits his thoughts on the latter and the guidelines which he, so far, has established for himself.

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