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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Dentists might get emails from the state or law enforcement and generally say that they need assistance with identifying a patient based on dental records. May include whatever findings they have about the person in the email such as age, gender, etc. Can include the radiographs and if dentists know of the person, they can respond.
Teeth don’t break down when the body decomposes, like your other bones in your body. Teeth will have certain identifying features that can help tell people apart. As rudimentary as it may seem, it’s all about identifying restorations in the radiograph, including the size and shape of it. If a person has five restorations on the right side, each restoration can lead towards a positive identification of the person. Even if you have radiographs of the person from five years ago and they get some work done, you can still identify older fillings that they have. All this works towards getting that identification needed.
Bonus, if your dentures have some identification on it be it your name or your prison ID, it can help identify you if you had your dentures in when you die. So make sure to get your dentures with your name on them please, it’s helpful, and helpful so the other people in the home can’t steal your dentures and claim it’s theirs.
Source, am dentist
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