Pillai Jayasankar Purushothaman, Chokkalingam Thamarai Selvan, Aasaithambi Balamurugan, Nuzzolese Emilio
Department of Oral Pathology, Government Dental College and Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Department of Forensic Odontology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi, India.
J Forensic Dent Sci. 2019 May-Aug;11(2):64-72. doi: 10.4103/jfo.jfds_53_19. Epub 2020 Jan 24.
The importance and the application of dental science and forensic odontology in the legal system are gradually increasing in India. In a long-term vision, there is a need for a specialized forensic training curriculum not only for the undergraduate and postgraduate dental students but also for the experienced dental surgeons. Dental experts opinion is sought most commonly in forensic casework of human identification, age estimation, and sexual assault cases with patterned injury, by the legal and forensic authorities. As a consequence, there is a demand for dentists trained in forensic and legal dentistry and experienced in forensic, capable of dealing and managing medicolegal cases in dental institutes or state hospitals. Several guidelines and protocols for forensic odontology procedures are drafted and proposed by forensic odontology organizations. However, there are no specific guidelines or recommendations for the establishment of a specialized forensic odontology department or unit in dental institutes. Hence, this article addresses the necessity and requirements for a forensic odontology unit, proposing a model to follow. A comprehensive list of forensic odontology armamentarium and case dependent forensic odontology kits is also highlighted here.
在印度，牙科学和法医牙科学在法律体系中的重要性及应用正逐渐增加。从长远来看，不仅需要为牙科本科和研究生学生，也需要为经验丰富的牙科外科医生制定专门的法医培训课程。在人类身份识别、年龄估计以及伴有形态损伤的性侵犯案件等法医工作中，法律和法医部门最常寻求牙科专家的意见。因此，需要在法医牙科学和法律牙科学方面接受培训且有法医经验、能够在牙科机构或国立医院处理和管理法医学案件的牙医。法医牙科学组织起草并提出了若干法医牙科学程序的指南和方案。然而，对于在牙科机构设立专门的法医牙科学部门或单位，尚无具体的指南或建议。因此，本文论述了设立法医牙科学单位的必要性和要求，并提出了一个可供遵循的模式。本文还重点列出了法医牙科学设备及依案件而定的法医牙科学工具包的综合清单。
