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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It doesn’t work like in TV and movies where they can identify a body by dental records alone.
In real life, police use dental records to CONFIRM an identity they already suspect, by getting records from that specific person’s dentist.
Eg if police find a body and think it might be Dave, a hiker that went missing in the area a year ago, they go to Dave’s dentist and get records of his teeth and dental work. Then if the body’s teeth and fillings match his dentist’s records, the police can then confidently say “ok yes this is Dave’s body we found”.
If the police found a body they suspected was you, they’d contact your dentist in your home country (if they could find who that was) and compare their records with the body. But again, **they have to already suspect it was you based on some other evidence first**. If you flew to a random country, stole a car, drove out into the middle of nowhere, hiked for a few hours then died, your teeth would be no help in identifying your body. Unless you had some ID in your pocket, in which case they’d try and find your dentist.
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