Naslov
Odontological identification of war victims in Croatia

Autori
Brkić, Hrvoje ; Strinović, Davor ; Kubat, Milovan ; Petrovečki, Vedrana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of abstracts / Krušlin, B. ; Belicza, M. - Zagreb : Veterinarski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2000, 26-26

Skup
11th Ljudevit Jurak International symposium on comparative pathology

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 09.06.2000. - 10.06.2000

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Teeth; Identification; Forensic odontology

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Dentalna medicina

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