title: Post mortem identification of a body by use of dental evidence.
abstract: In early 1988 the Dean of the University Dental Hospital of Manchester was approached by the Greater Manchester Police Force with a request for a member of staff to provide additional forensic services for them. They already had two dental practitioners who provided a service on the criminal side, but they required someone to deal with the unidentified bodies that were not apparently crime related. Later in the same year a police officer telephoned with the request for an examination of a female body. It had been immersed in the Manchester Ship Canal for some considerable time and crime was not suspected.
authors.affiliation: University Dental Hospital of Manchester.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Howarth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005553:Forensic Dentistry; D006801:Humans