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?

In: 1811

Answer 1

In Australia, a forensic odontologist (dentist with additional post-graduate training) typically does the comparison between the dental radiographs of the deceased and those supplied by the dental clinic. I actually knew a lady who did this!