Forensic Odontology in Pediatric Dentistry

Forensic Odontology in Pediatric Dentistry

Uncovering the Mysteries of Forensic Odontology

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2024-01-09 )

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The book is all about legal branch of dentistry known as forensic dentistry, examines dental evidence in the interest of justice. The theory behind forensic dentistry is that “no two mouths are alike”. Forensic dentistry or forensic odontology involves dentists’ participation in assisting legal and criminal issues. Teeth can survive long after other skeletal structures have been destroyed by fire or other natural disasters or have succumbed to organic decay. Dental records are an essential component serving as an information source for dentists and the patients, in medicolegal, administrative financial function within general practice for quality assurance and audit. It is said that dentists and patients forget but good records remember. Newer forensic dentistry methods can be used to find cases that cannot be identified by facial recognition or that might be fingerprints.This book emphasis on the concept of forensic dentistry or forensic odontology and enlightens its importance in many fields such as in human identification, age estimation, child abuse cases etc.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-620-7-45776-2

ISBN-10:

6207457765

EAN:

9786207457762

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Rasleen Dua
Sathyajith Naik
Pallavi Vashisth

Number of pages:

112

Published on:

2024-01-09

Category:

Dentistry

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