What every dentist must know about forensic odontology: An overview

Abstract

Background The contribution of forensic odontology to dental ageing and superimposition are always dependent on the dentist’s awareness of the responsibilities in advocacy for human rights and the integrity of maintain dental records. Objective The state-of-the-art article provides insights for undergraduate and postgraduate dental students as well as experienced dentists towards identifying the basic tenets of forensic odontology. Results The article enumerates the classic and advances techniques commonly used in forensic odontology to identify a cadaver’s age, gender, specification of time of death, diagnosing uncategorized diseases and detecting trace toxins which could never been retrieved from incinerated bodies. Advances in Knowledge Not only does this include dental impressions and gypsum cast, but it encompasses all digital photos, intraoral and extraoral radiographs, panoramic tomography, CBCT, TMJ imaging sorted chronologically. If saving blocks and casts need space, they can be digitized. However, the need for old-fashioned physical records is expected to be minimal with the popularity of the use of digital scanners and computational applications.