The challenge of unidentified decedents in Africa: The need for training and research in forensic odontology to strengthen a multidisciplinary approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Oral Health, 2022 IntroductionThe management of unidentified decedents suspected to be undocumented migrants is a growing humanitarian crisis in Africa. Identification of the dead and the right of the family to know the fate of a decedent is a fundamental human right ...
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Applications of contemporary artificial intelligence technology in forensic odontology as primary forensic identifier: A scoping review [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 BackgroundForensic odontology may require a visual or clinical method during identification. Sometimes it may require forensic experts to refer to the existing technique to identify individuals, for example, by using the atlas to estimate the dental age.
Norhasmira Mohammad +4 more
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Identification of Population Affinity Using Dental Traits: A Narrative Review in Forensic Odontology [PDF]
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aim Forensic odontology utilizes dental morphology to estimate population affinity in medico‐legal cases. This review examines the role of dental traits in human identification, emphasizing their limitations in conclusively estimating ...
Alok Atreya +3 more
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Maintenance of Dental Records and Forensic Odontology Awareness: A Survey of Croatian Dentists with Implications for Dental Education [PDF]
Dentistry Journal, 2021 Forensic odontology is the application of dentistry within the criminal justice system. Forensic expertise, including dental identification, mostly relies on dental records.
Ivana Savić Pavičin +4 more
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AI-Driven Innovations in Forensic Odontology: Challenges and Opportunities
Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied SciencesForensic odontology serves as a pivotal domain in the forensic sciences, contributing significantly to personal identification in criminal investigations, disaster victim identification, and age estimation scenarios.
Shruti Sinha +3 more
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Decolonising forensic odontology in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Forensic Science International: SynergyForensic odontology plays a vital role in human identification, age estimation, and legal investigations. However, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the field has developed within a framework shaped by colonial histories, Western methodologies, and systemic ...
Salma Kabbashi +3 more
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Social contribution of forensic odontology in Japan [PDF]
Japanese Dental Science Review, 2019 Half a century has passed since the department for education and research on forensic odontology was established at dentistry-related universities in Japan in 1964.
Toshinobu Komuro +7 more
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VIRDENTOPSY: Virtual Dental Autopsy and Remote Forensic Odontology Evaluation [PDF]
Dentistry Journal, 2021 The identification of human remains relies on the comparison of post-mortem data, collected during the autopsy, with the ante-mortem data gathered from the missing persons’ reports.
Emilio Nuzzolese
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Forensic odontology in DVI: current practice and recent advances [PDF]
Forensic Sciences Research, 2019 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.
Alex Forrest
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Forensic Odontology: An Important Tool in Mass Disasters and Crime Investigations [PDF]
Dental Journal of Advance Studies, 2023 Forensic odontology is a branch of dentistry that is concerned with the investigation and proper handling of dental evidences and demonstration of dental findings in the interest of justice.
Jessica Garewal +2 more
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