Liu F, Dang Y H
Department of Forensic Science, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China.
Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China.
Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2017 Apr;33(2):175-180. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-5619.2017.02.015. Epub 2017 Apr 25.
Forensic dentistry is an interdiscipline of forensic medicine and stomatology, which provides legal information by collecting, testing and assessing the dental evidence scientifically. In this review, the present application of forensic dentistry has been described, such as the estimation of age, sex, species, occupation and living habit, as well as the identification of individual, domestic violence or abuse, which aims to enrich and improve forensic dentistry for making it be more useful in forensic medicine even in juridical practice.
法医牙科学是法医学与口腔医学的交叉学科，通过科学地收集、检测和评估牙齿证据来提供法律信息。在这篇综述中，描述了法医牙科学目前的应用，如年龄、性别、物种、职业和生活习惯的推断，以及个体识别、家庭暴力或虐待情况的鉴定，目的是丰富和完善法医牙科学，使其在法医学乃至司法实践中更具实用性。
