Agrawal Nitin Kumar, Dahal Samarika, Wasti Harihar
Department of Dentistry, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2017 Oct-Dec;56(208):469-71.
Identification of victims in a disaster is a challenging process and requires use of both primary and secondary identifiers. Development of teeth is one of the routinely used methods of age estimation and helps in establishing deceased biological profile. Two children who lost their lives in 2014 in Nepal Airlines crash, were looked for the dental developmental status. One of the children had primary dentition, while the other had mixed dentition. This helped us in estimating age of these individuals reconciled with the chronological age provided by the relatives. This led to the identification of both the children, thus, emphasizing teeth as important means of identification in any disaster.
灾难中遇难者身份识别是一个具有挑战性的过程，需要使用主要和次要标识符。牙齿发育情况是常用的年龄估计方法之一，有助于建立死者的生物学特征。2014年在尼泊尔航空坠机事故中丧生的两名儿童，其牙齿发育状况被进行了调查。其中一名儿童处于乳牙列期，另一名处于混合牙列期。这有助于我们根据亲属提供的实际年龄来估算这些个体的年龄。这使得两名儿童的身份得以确认，从而强调了牙齿在任何灾难中作为重要身份识别手段的作用。
