Bitemarks in forensic odontology.
Person identification is important in criminology, and forensic odontologists are key personnel for identifying a highly individual dentition which could cause a bitemark and which could be used to convict or exculpate a suspect. Bitemarks may be observed in skin, wax, from a dental model indirectly from a photograph, a scanned image of a dental model or food. This paper shows that bitemarks constitute reliable evidence for person identification and that a tolerance of approximately 1mm existed between measurements of a wax bite, dental model, photograph and computer scanned image.
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Faculty of Dentistry, University of Selcuk, Konya, Turkey.
Gökdemir
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Kedici
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Ikyaz
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D001734:Bites, Human / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005553:Forensic Dentistry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D003765:Models, Dental; D010781:Photography; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012867:Skin; D014885:Waxes
D014885:Waxes