Agrawal Nitin Kumar, Dahal Samarika, Wasti Harihar, Soon Alistair
Department of Dentistry, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
J Nepal Health Res Counc. 2017 Sep 8;15(2):193-196. doi: 10.3126/jnhrc.v15i2.18195.
In any disaster, it becomes important to identify the deceased for ethical, social and legal causes.Out of the numerous methods of identification, dental comparison is considered to be one of the scientific methods in a Disaster Victim Identification process. The two victims of avalanche in Nepal were identified using dental comparison. The two bodies brought for examination were unidentifiable visually. To aid identification of tooth coloured restorations, ultraviolet light was used. The ultraviolet light made the tooth coloured restorations appear distinct from the adjacent tooth structure in one of the cases. This helped in post-mortem charting of dental examination with greater accuracy. When the ante-mortem dental records and the post-mortem dental findings were compared, positive identification was made for both the cases. The bodies were then handed over to their respective kin. These cases highlighted the importance of ultraviolet light in post-mortem dental examination and the significance of forensic dentistry in identification process.
在任何灾难中，出于伦理、社会和法律原因，确定死者身份都变得至关重要。在众多身份识别方法中，牙齿比对被认为是灾难受害者身份识别过程中的科学方法之一。尼泊尔雪崩事故中的两名遇难者就是通过牙齿比对来确认身份的。送来检查的两具尸体从外观上无法辨认。为了辅助识别牙齿颜色的修复体，使用了紫外线灯。在其中一个案例中，紫外线灯使牙齿颜色的修复体与相邻的牙齿结构区分开来。这有助于更准确地进行死后牙齿检查记录。将生前牙齿记录与死后牙齿检查结果进行比对后，两起案件均得以成功确认身份。随后，尸体被交还给各自的亲属。这些案例凸显了紫外线灯在死后牙齿检查中的重要性以及法医牙科学在身份识别过程中的重要意义。
