Sweet D, DiZinno J A
Division of Oral Diagnosis, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry.
J Calif Dent Assoc. 1996 May;24(5):35-42.
The most common role of the forensic dentist is the identification of deceased individuals. Comparative dental identification is used to establish to a high degree of certainty that the remains of a decedent and a person represented by antemortem dental records are the same individual. In cases where no antemortem information is available, a postmortem dental profile is completed by the forensic dentist from studies of the teeth, jaws and related facial structures so investigators can narrow the search for antemortem records to a specific population pool. Important clues in resolving the case are available if antemortem data can be obtained for comparison with the postmortem findings. In this article, these responsibilities of the forensic dentist are discussed along with the recent advances in forensic DNA technology that employ dental evidence to assist in resolving violent crimes.
法医牙医最常见的职责是识别死者身份。牙齿比对鉴定用于高度确定死者遗体与生前牙齿记录所代表的人是否为同一人。在没有生前信息的情况下，法医牙医通过对牙齿、颌骨及相关面部结构的研究完成死后牙齿档案，以便调查人员将生前记录的搜索范围缩小到特定人群。如果能够获取生前数据与死后检查结果进行比对，就能找到解决案件的重要线索。本文将讨论法医牙医的这些职责，以及利用牙齿证据协助解决暴力犯罪的法医DNA技术的最新进展。
