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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They don’t let you identify someone; Your teeth aren’t on a national registry

But, they can be used to confirm an identification if they suspect someone.

So if you have a body, the teeth are worthless. Unless, you know that someone with a gold filling on the left side of his mouth went missing a few weeks ago.

From there, you can order his dental records and check if his teeth are roughly the right shape

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