Ana M Molina, Mara Ros

Forensic Dentistry
Must have knowledge of Human Anthropology to give with exactitude the results with respect to the expert works within this area. Since within the expert works not always we are going to find with corpses within an amphitheatre, in certain occasions it will have to work with found corpses of unknown identity.

The teeth offer much information for the comparison of the data antemortem with postmortem
And Finally

First of all
Because, partly, formed by the weave it last more of the human body (the enamel)

Because of all the hard structures of mesodermal origin, the teeth are the unique ones that in the subject while still alive are in direct bonding with the environment

Secondly the great evolutionary stability that owns the crowns, follows a model polygenetic that although at the moment are not known, indicates in some morphologic characters of population importance

Estimation Of The Age

It exists a great correlation between the chronological age and the biological age; for that reason, second it is used to consider to first that the chronological age is really the one that is required like element of work in the legal medical identification. The dental maturation mainly and the bud of the teeth are the most efficient resources to consider the age in small children and adults and can helpful be the grade of qualification of the third molars in individuals with less than 25 years of age.

Estimation Of The Age

Determination Of Sex And The Race

The determination of the variables sex and race presents a great methodologic dependency.
Although anatomical regions able exist to offer to major information and therefore, to provide more efficient techniques, the teeth and maxillaries can be used with these aims, mainly, in corpses very fragmented or carbonized. For such cases they are the discriminating functions to determine sex and the race by dental measurements (ODONTOMETRIA)

Determination Of The Nationality

The materials used in the dental reconstructions, prothesic dentadures, orthodontic and in other treatments of Stomatology, not always are the same in different countries. In addition, they can be "technical" different in the designs and procedures.

Odontograma premortem

The presence of tattoos in the mucous oral one or other anomalies they are sufficient to establish a positive or absolute identification of the victim.

The rigor mortis does not allow the access adapted to the mouth cavity, by what the removal of the maxillary ones will be indicated To determine the age in children and subadults the autopsy will include the extractions of teeth and follicles this way to analyze directly the degree of classification in which they are.

Detection of diseases dental - maxillary, decay proximal, treatments pulporradiculares, retained teeth.
The information pre and postmortem, they allow the comparison of the forms and contours of the restorations and of the maxillary and frontal bosoms

The use of the special methods of identification of the forensic estomatologa, it is indispensable inside theactions (performances) medico legal related to the massive Identification of corpses in situations of disasters. These technologies (skills) acquire major value of application in those cases in which the physical integrity of the bodies of the deceased is very affected and basically they do not differ when they are used in other circumstances.
What distinguishes to the work of the forensic estomatologo in situations of disasters, is your integration to a multidisciplinary group under an organizational particular system