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 cannot use dental records to identify a person, they can only be used as evidence to confirm the identity of someone whose identity they think they know.
They find a body and say “Gee, that looks like it could be Joe Schmoe, the guy reported missing by his family last week, but I can’t be sure because the body’s in rough shape.” Then they go to the family and say “We think we might have found Joe, but we can’t be sure. Can you call his dentist and ask to send his last dental records?” Then the coroner compares the two and says – “Yep, same fillings, crown, tooth sticking out at a weird angle, that’s Joe.”
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