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Dental records are often one of the most effective methods of identifying a body. As with fingerprints, everyone’s teeth are different. The shape, size, alignment, chips, cracks and fillings are all recorded in minute detail as the dentist checks our teeth.
Odontologists request these records and check them against any bite-marks found at the crime scene, or compare them to the teeth of an unidentified body. Odontologists have the corpse’s teeth x-rayed before comparing them with the dental records of missing persons.
The first time teeth were used to identify bodies was in 1849 after a fire at the opera in Vienna.
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