치아의 특징을 중심으로한 대형참사시의 개인식별

Abstract

Teeth have many characteristics compared to any other part of human body for the individual identification and strong resistance against external environment. So teeth is the major informant of dental identification in mass disasters. A dental inspector who accomplish dental identification should carefully observe the characteristics of teeth such as missing tooth, impacted tooth, supernumerary tooth, anatomical abnormality, dental caries, residual root rest, servre attrition, cervical abrasion, distinction of primary and permanent tooth, filling material, type and cavity, material and type of prosthesis, orthodontic appliance and information of dentition. There are enormous forensic odontological data of the victims in mass disasters. Such data has to be collected, selected and compared systematically antemortem and postmortem data of the victims by using computer and dental identification software. Using this kind of method, it is highly expected that dental identification can be more efficient than any other forensic identification.