Yellow Form (PM Dental)
Definition
The INTERPOL DVI post-mortem dental form, colour-coded yellow. Completed by the forensic odontologist at the mortuary from direct examination of the remains. Contains the same data fields as the pink form, enabling direct field-by-field comparison.
- Colour code
- Yellow
- Content
- Post-mortem dental findings
- Completed by
- Forensic odontologist
- Compared against
- Pink form (ante-mortem dental record)
- Setting
- Mortuary, from direct examination of remains
Common questions
Why does the post-mortem dental form use the same field structure as the ante-mortem pink form?+
Matching field structures let reconcilers compare the two records tooth by tooth and restoration by restoration, so a discrepancy or agreement on a specific field is immediately visible rather than requiring the reconciler to reformat or cross-reference differently structured data.
What happens when post-mortem and ante-mortem dental forms disagree on a finding?+
A single discrepancy such as a missing restoration is evaluated in context, since ante-mortem dental records can be outdated or incomplete, so odontologists weigh the overall pattern of agreements and explainable discrepancies across the full dentition rather than rejecting an identification on one mismatched field.
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