Dental identification in routine forensic casework: Clinical and postmortem investigations

Legal Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-14

  Sakoda, Shigeki ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a   Ishida, Kaori ^a   Oritani, Shigeki ^a   Fujita, Masaki Q ^a   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forensic odontology; Identification; Radiography; Restoration; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CADAVER IDENTIFICATION; CANINE TOOTH; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INCISOR; MALE; ODONTOLOGY; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034095107     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(00)80002-4     Document Type: Article

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