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Skin distortion

The deformation of a bite mark pattern caused by the viscoelastic properties of skin, body position, postmortem change, and healing. PCAST identified skin distortion as one of the two fundamental scientific problems (the other being the unknown uniqueness of dentition) that bite mark analysis has not resolved.

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Black-box studyFoundational validityInnocence ProjectInter-examiner reliabilityWrongful conviction

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