In cases where a body is found, how do they identify them only with dental records? E.g. all my dental work is done in my home country and I live in a different country. How will this different country know who I am by my fillings etc?
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There’s no massive dental records database along the lines of what we have for fingerprints (which is also limited) that you could search when you have an unidentified body. Realistically what happens is when a body is found and they have reason to believe it could be a particular person, they would contact that person’s family/dentist and ask for their most recent records. Some realistic examples:
There is a plan crash and the victims are too disfigured to be identified, but you have the manifest so you know who was on the plane. You get the dental records of that specific group of people to aid in identification.
A body is found and it is a possible match for one or more missing persons. You get the dental records for those specific missing persons for comparison.
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