[Dental identification in ferry disaster outside Zeebrugge].

The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster on the 6th of March 1987 just outside Zeebrugge harbour was without any doubt a disaster of major proportions. The identification of the victims had to be done in three phases each of them with its own specific work and problems. As the process of identification of bodies is an exacting science, and forensic odontology is known to be among the most reliable scientific methods in mass disasters, it is easily understood that forensic odontology took an active part in all three phases of the identification process.