Post-Mortem Dental Profile
Definition
The systematic recording of teeth present, restorations, missing teeth, and pathology from an unidentified decedent, used to search antemortem records for a match.
Related terms
- Ante-Mortem Record
- Any dental document created during a person's lifetime: clinical charts, radiographs (periapical, panoramic, bitewing), photographs, study models, and treatment notes. These are...
- Bite-Mark Analysis
- A pattern-comparison discipline in which a forensic odontologist attempts to link a bite wound on a victim to the dentition of a...
- Dental Age Estimation
- Methods that use the stage of tooth formation, eruption, wear, or regressive tissue changes to estimate a person's chronological age when documentary...
- DVI (Disaster Victim Identification)
- The systematic multi-agency process for identifying victims of mass-casualty events, governed by the INTERPOL DVI Guide 2018 revision. Organises work into five...
- Forensic Odontology
- The branch of dentistry that applies dental knowledge and methods to legal proceedings, including identification of the dead, bite-mark analysis, and age...
Explained in
- Introduction and Scope of Forensic OdontologyThe systematic recording of teeth present, restorations, missing teeth, and pathology from an unidentified decedent, used to search antemortem records for a ma...