title: Palatal identity appliance: an identification tool in mining accidents.
abstract: Fatal accidents are rather common in mining endeavours. Establishing the identification of the deceased in mining accidents can be extremely challenging and the palatal identity appliance is a custom made intra oral device with an embedded memory chip with complete data stored in it which can be very useful in such situations to establish the identity of the dead.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College, No. 162, P.H. Road, Vellapanchavadi, Chennai, 600077 India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dhanraj
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College, No. 162, P.H. Road, Vellapanchavadi, Chennai, 600077 India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anand
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College, No. 162, P.H. Road, Vellapanchavadi, Chennai, 600077 India.
authors.forename: Padma
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ariga
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College, No. 162, P.H. Road, Vellapanchavadi, Chennai, 600077 India.
authors.forename: Siddartha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sasikumar
keywords: Identification of dead; Memory chip; Mining accidents; Palatal appliance