title: Problems in mass-disaster dental identification: a retrospective review.
abstract: A wide variety of problems may prevent or hinder a dental-identification (ID) team in its efforts to identify mass casualties. Since these problems have been infrequently reported in a comprehensive manner, the authors identified and summarized these problems to increase the awareness of dental-ID team members and to prepare them for future mass-disaster missions. The authors analyzed 50 mass disasters--ten in which the authors as members of military dental ID teams played a major role and 40 from the literature--and summarized problems that they confronted.
authors.affiliation: Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Department, Louisana State University School of Dentistry, New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Brannon
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Kessler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003792:Dental Records; D003817:Dentition; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004190:Disasters; D005260:Female; D005553:Forensic Dentistry / Q000379:methods; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013315:Stress, Psychological