Do the police just show up at any dentist office and ask them to plug a tooth into the Tooth-Identifier 3000™?
There are thousands of dental offices.
Is there an international tooth database?
In: Biology
There’s no central dental database like there is for fingerprints for law enforcement organizations.
Dental records are more used to **confirm** if you already have **some idea** of who the person may be based on their age/sex (also something you can ascertain from skeletal remains)
you can compare your JohnDoe’s teeth with the dental records missing persons in the area or other persons of interest
you can determine which body in a large accident belongs to which person, like a burning car crash you already likely already know who was in the car, but not sure which mangled burned corpse is which person
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