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Odontological identification of war victims in Croatia

Personal identification of the war victims in Croatia was performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the School of Medicine in Zagreb. A forensic odontologist participated in the identification process by carrying out dental identification. dental identification based on available dental antemortem data was achiwed in 25% of the cases.Teeth in combination with anthropological parameters - age, sex and height as well as with other specific characteristics such as tattoos, personal identification cards, clothes, jewelry and DNA - were helpful for identification of 64% of victims, but their significance for the identification was not dominant. Only in 11% of the cases was identification achiwed by other relevant means of identification and teeh were not used at all.

Teeth; Identification; Forensic odontology

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