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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Dental records are used to confirm a hypothesis of identity. They find a body, think it’s John Smith from Missouri, subpoena Mr. Smiths Dental records, and confirm that, yes, indeed, it is him (or alternatively that it isn’t).
In the case of a completely unknown body with no hypothesis as to who it is, Dental records are useless, because no such database exists.
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