Research Progress on Forensic Dentistry
10.3969/j.issn.1004-5619.2017.02.015
- VernacularTitle:法医牙科学研究进展
- Author:
Fei LIU
;
Yonghui DANG
- Keywords:
forensic dentistry;
forensic anthropology;
review;
oral m edicine;
age determ ination by teeth;
individual identification
- From:
Journal of Forensic Medicine
2017;33(2):175-180
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Forensic dentistry is an interdiscipline of forensic m edicine and stom atology, w hich provides legal inform ation by collecting, testing and assessing the dental evidence scientifically. In this review , the present application of forensic dentistry has been described, such as the estim ation of age, sex, species, occupation and living habit, as w ell as the identification of individual, dom estic violence or abuse, w hich aim s to enrich and im prove forensic dentistry for m aking it be m ore useful in forensic m edicine even in juridical practice.