Shamim Thorakkal
Department of Dentistry, Government Taluk Head Quarters Hospital, Malappuram, Kerala, India.
J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2018 Jan-Feb;8(1):1-5. doi: 10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_435_17. Epub 2018 Feb 22.
Forensic odontology is the subdiscipline of dentistry which analyses dental evidence in the interest of justice. Oral pathology is the subdiscipline of dentistry that deals with the pathology affecting the oral and maxillofacial regions. This subdiscipline is utilized for identification through oral and maxillofacial pathologies with associated syndromes, enamel rod patterns, sex determination using exfoliative cytology, identification from occlusal morphology of teeth, and deoxyribonucleic acid profiling from teeth. This subdiscipline is also utilized for age estimation studies which include Gustafson's method, incremental lines of Retzius, perikymata, natal line formation in teeth, neonatal line, racemization of collagen in dentin, cemental incremental lines, thickness of the cementum, and translucency of dentin. Even though the expertise of an oral pathologist is not taken in forensic investigations, this paper aims to discuss the role of oral pathology in forensic investigation.
法医牙科学是牙科学的一个分支学科，它为司法目的分析牙科证据。口腔病理学是牙科学的一个分支学科，处理影响口腔和颌面部区域的病理学问题。该分支学科用于通过口腔和颌面部病理学及相关综合征、釉柱模式、使用脱落细胞学进行性别鉴定、根据牙齿咬合形态进行身份识别以及从牙齿进行脱氧核糖核酸分析来进行身份鉴定。该分支学科还用于年龄估计研究，包括古斯塔夫森法、雷丘斯生长线、釉面横纹、牙齿中出生线的形成、新生儿线、牙本质中胶原蛋白的消旋化、牙骨质生长线、牙骨质厚度以及牙本质透明度。尽管法医调查中未涉及口腔病理学家的专业知识，但本文旨在探讨口腔病理学在法医调查中的作用。
