title: [Plastic facial reconstruction in forensic medicine].
abstract: Plastic facial reconstruction is the field of personal identification where the limitations of science are augmented by the intuition of an artist. In this field, success requires the cooperation of an anthropologist and a sculptor--and sometimes a little luck. Authors summarize the applications and limitations of this method. For the first time in the history of their institute, University Medical School of Pécs, the face of a victim in an actual crime case have been reconstructed. In this situation, the victim was in advanced stages of decomposition. The features of the man's face were unrecognizable. Using thirty craniometric measuring points, the soft tissues on the victims macerated scull was reconstructed, based on known soft tissue thickness of the middle-European population. After the reconstruction was complete, police circulated a photograph of the victim's face. The victim's son recognized her missing father from the photograph and notified the police. These efforts were noted as the first success of its kind in our region.
authors.affiliation: Pécsi Orvostudományi Egyetem, Igazságügyi Orvostani Intézet.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Angyal
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rimmer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vollmuth
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D018732:Forensic Anthropology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013518:Surgery, Plastic