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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Can’t explain much about dental records to ID deceased people, but bite mark analysis in assault/homicide cases isn’t a reliable science. Due to a general lack of standardized dental records to start with, along with fluctuations at the site of bite marks including swelling, dragging, depth, and death, police can’t reliably or accurately define who bit someone based on the mark alone.
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