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

To add to what was said: If you have a pile of 100 charred bodies and you know who the people in the plane/building were but would like to identify each individual body, it’s easy to get the records.

> And teeth look a lot alike on those X-rays

I would expect they’re looking for fillings, not the teeth themselves.