How do police use dental records to identify dead people?

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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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The other thing is – Forensic Odontology in terms of bite patterns is pure bunkum. You cannot use a bite pattern on a medium be it flesh, apple, cheese sandwich to identify a person. It used to be thought possible, and there were even convictions – but these fell out of favour, and eventually ended in exonorations.

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