ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 5

Dusting and Lifting the Bite Print: A New Technique
Souviron, RR
Forensic odontologist, Dade County Medical Examiner Department, FL

Rao, VJ
Associate medical examiner, Dade County Medical Examiner Department and clinical assistant professor of pathology, Dade County Medical Examiner Office, FL

(Received 4 May 1983; accepted 27 May 1983)

Abstract

Utilizing the powder and brush method employed in lifting fingerprints, one of the authors was able to lift tooth prints on the body surface of both living and dead victims. The advantages of ease, speed, and greater accuracy of detail render the procedure useful to the forensic odontologist, the medical examiner, and the on-scene evidence technician.

Keywords:
odontology, bite marks, bite prints

Paper ID: JFS11668J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11668J
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