Bernstein M L
Dent Clin North Am. 1983 Jan;27(1):151-70.
Certainly, not all of these photographs and procedures are necessary for documentation. In the past, the dental charting and word of the forensic dentist on identification have been readily accepted and rarely challenged in court. However, in an era when technology has made quality photography accessible to all dentists, these techniques permit improvement of a procedure. Adding a photographic record to a written postmortem dental chart promotes accuracy and reproducibility of detail and is desirable and logical for a technique whose value is predicated upon its scientific nature.
当然，并非所有这些照片和程序对于记录都是必要的。过去，法医牙医的牙科记录和鉴定意见在法庭上很容易被接受，很少受到质疑。然而，在一个技术使所有牙医都能获得高质量摄影的时代，这些技术可以改进程序。在书面的死后牙科记录中添加照片记录可提高细节的准确性和可重复性，对于一项其价值基于科学性质的技术来说，这是可取且合理的。
