engleski

determination of the war victims age by teeth

In this paper authors present the dental age determination methods of the bodies exhumed from the mass graves in Croatia. The analysis of teeth is found to be one of the main methods in the identification process in the following ways: 1. dental identification achieved by comparison with antemortem data; 2. Identification achieved through an interdisciplinary approach; 3. Identification achieved by the analysis of the DNA isolated from the dental tissues xells. When the interdisciplinary approach is used, involving forensic scientists from different disciplines, the odontologist determinates the age and sex of the bodies based on the analysis of teeth and corresponding bones structures. Dental age has been determined through clinical and x-ray analysis based on: a) chronology of the teeth eruption; b) quantity of mineralization of hard dental tissues; c) changes on dental tissues acquired during lifetime. The results show that the determination of dental age is a very reliable method that contributes to faster and precise identifications of the numerous victims of war.

teeth; age; identification; war

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