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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It’s called Forensic Odontology and it should never be used for bite mark evidence but it can be used to identify a body. It’s a debunked science

[Innocence Project](https://innocenceproject.org/what-is-bite-mark-evidence-forensic-science/)

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