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Analysis Identification of Victims of Mass Catastrophe in Forensic Dentistry
Published: 01.12.2014.
Biochemistry
Volume 31, Issue 2 (2015)
pp. 1314-1325;
Abstract
Natural disaster, such as earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, airline and railway accidents and shipwrecks, as a rule, are very rare, but they always have human victims. Wars are also a form of mass killings of people, but the identification of war victims requires more complex procedures. The most reliable and certain methods used for identification are fingerprints, dental analysis and DNA analysis. Secondary means of identification include a personal description, medical findings, as well as evidence and clothing found on the body. The largest contribution to the identification of the bodies was given by dentists who tried to identify victims with the teeth. Dental identification is an essential procedure that is conducted either independently or as supplement identification. Dentition in process of identifying the victims is used to compare AM (ante-mortem) and PM (post mortem) anthropological characteristics and dental procedures. Today dental identification is unavoidable process, because of its simplicity and because of the speed and economy.
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