How do police use dental records to identify dead people?

Question

If they don’t know who you are they can’t go to YOUR dentist, right? Is there a National database that stores all of our our bitewings – I don’t remember consenting to that! And teeth look a lot alike on those X-rays – do you need special training to tell one set apart from another?

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Answer 1

They’re like any other kind of record, when you drop the needle onto the tooth it starts to play and tells you everything about the person whose head the tooth came from