How are bite mark forensics a poor measure of determining whether a suspect matches the evidence found?

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How are bite mark forensics a poor measure of determining whether a suspect matches the evidence found?

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Answer 1

The issue is not that it is bad hypothetically, it’s that it’s bad in practice. 

Meaning, sure, people’s teeth are fairly distinct and their may be times that you can clearly establish person X made bite Y, but more often then not it’s ambiguous with a lot of room for pseudo-scientific and subjective analysis.