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forensic dentistry

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fo·ren·sic den·tis·try

1. the relation and application of dental facts to legal problems, as in using the teeth for identifying the dead;
2. the law in its bearing on the practice of dentistry.
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forensic dentistry

The application of the principles of diagnostic dentistry to identifying remains of persons whose death occurred under uncertain circumstances.
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fo·ren·sic den·tis·try

(fŏr-en'sik den'tis-trē)
1. The relation and application of dental facts to legal problems, as in using the teeth of a cadaver to help establish identity.
2. The law in its bearing on the practice of dentistry.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

fo·ren·sic den·tis·try

(fŏr-en'sik den'tis-trē)
1. Relation and application of dental facts to legal issues.
2. Law in its bearing on the practice of dentistry.
Synonym(s): dental jurisprudence, legal dentistry.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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The objective of forensic dentistry is identifying unknown individuals, most often during postmortem examination.
I started off in forensic dentistry in Switzerland but wanted a complete career change.
And Dublin Dental Hospital said it hopes to run Ireland's first centre specialising in forensic dentistry.
Consider the computer: It can be used to develop a new method of personal identification based on dental bitemarks that may aid efforts in law enforcement and forensic dentistry; it can be designed so that it runs multiple interacting programs simultaneously almost three times faster than a single microprocessor-based system; and when combined with theoretical number formulas, it can show that an odd perfect number -- in which the sum of its factors is twice the original number -- must be at least 10.sup.79.
Individual recognition has a high application value in clinical practice of forensic dentistry. For example, it is necessary to confirm the age of the individual for legal reasons (Star et al., 2011; Bing et al., 2013; Tardivo et al., 2014).
Students of the SADAA chapter at the Community College of Rhode Island celebrated DARW by attending a lecture on Forensic Dentistry offered by the Rhode Island Dental Assistants Association.
Importance in general and forensic Dentistry Journal of Forensic Dental Sciences, 2014 Jan-Apr; 6(1): 9-15.
Forensic dentistry is an important branch of forensic medicine which contributes immensely in solving difficult criminal cases and also in identification of individuals in mass disasters.
Cottone and Standish, (7) reported in their book "Outline of Forensic Dentistry", that cheiloscopy (study of lip prints) is one of its special techniques used for personal identification, and Ball (8) has also reported the history of lip prints as an evidence in the Courts of Law.
In this way, the present study aimed to evaluate the applicability of the palatal rugoscopy as a method for human identification in Forensic Dentistry, according to the methodology described by Martins-dos-Santos (1946), in edentulous patients, with upper removable denture and in dentulous patients without dentures.
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