Division of Aging and Geriatric Dentistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan Comprehensive Dentistry, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan International Advance Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku University International Advan...

Aims Micro-CT scanning technology has been increasingly used in various fields of forensic science, however rarely in forensic dentistry. Forensic dentists are regularly confronted with incidents involving high temperatures (e.g. airplane crashes, natural disasters, house fires) and therefore information gained from experimental research can provide useful information for estimating temperature...

This paper describes the international disaster victim identification (DVI) response mounted in Thailand, with particular reference to Singapore's contribution to this process, in the wake of the Asian tsunami of 26 December, 2004, which devastated parts of more than 10 countries in and around the Indian Ocean and claimed more than 200,000 lives. Although Singapore was unscathed by this natural...

Teeth are one of the most important and popular biometric characteristic used in Forensic Dentistry. The development of automatic or semiautomatic, robust and precise forensic human identification systems are crucial for forensic, principally in mass disasters, like tsunamis and airplanes crashes. In this work we propose the use of the Differential Image Foresting Transform (DIFT) to extract th...

Forensic dentistry, the implementation of dentistry to juridical affairs, is a new grandeur of forensic science. Over the past two decades, there has been apprizing reconnaissance on forensic dental matters. The incarnated fact that the dental restorations and human teeth remain stable over a period of long time, even in extreme circumstances like fire, forensic odontology can play a cardinal r...

BACKGROUND Translucency of dentine is the result of occlusion of the corresponding dentinal tubules by a mineral substance which has a refractive index similar to that of the rest of the dentine. CASE PRESENTATION This case report describes the microradiographic features of an upper cadaveric canine. Transverse microradiograph is one of the methods assessing apical dentine translucency for va...

The authors record the contribution of dentistry to the identification of victims of one of the most significant tragedies of the 20th century—the mass suicide of members of a religious cult, which initially resulted in 913 deaths and ultimately in 923. Though forensic dentistry played a significant part in identifying victims, the only report by members of the United States identification team...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test the applicability of the Demirjian method and revised versions for estimating chronological age (CA) from dental age (DA) in a sample of children. STUDY DESIGN A sample of 252 individuals of known age (4 to 14 yrs), sex (males: 125, females: 127), and ethnicity (Saudi) was collected. Each individual was aged using the original Demirjian method ...