A hierarchical system for the coding of dental information in reports and computer-assisted identifications.
Dental coding systems have hitherto been developed mainly to record treatment. The present hierarchical system was specially designed for computer aided dental identification and has been tested for 15 years in the Norwegian register of missing persons. It is in addition well suited for rapid and exact reporting of dental findings in identification cases. The system has also been proposed for adoption by Interpol.
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Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo, Norway.
D004245:DMF Index; D003792:Dental Records; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005553:Forensic Dentistry; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009664:Norway; D009811:Odontometry; D012042:Registries