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

Problems in Mass-Disaster Dental Identification: A Retrospective Review
Kessler, HP
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, DC

Brannon, RB
Louisana State University School of Dentistry, LA

(Received 15 May 1998; accepted 12 June 1998)

Abstract

A wide variety of problems may prevent or hinder a dental-identification (ID) team in its efforts to identify mass casualties. Since these problems have been infrequently reported in a comprehensive manner, the authors identified and summarized these problems to increase the awareness of dental-ID team members and to prepare them for future mass-disaster missions. The authors analyzed 50 mass disasters—ten in which the authors as members of military dental ID teams played a major role and 40 from the literature—and summarized problems that they confronted.

Keywords:
forensic science, forensic odontology, mass disasters, dental identification

Paper ID: JFS14423J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS14423J
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