Geographic factors in forensic odontology.
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The article attempts to explain that the dental expert cannot base his identification of an unknown body on the relative frequency of occurrence of any singular dental feature, its particular discrimination potential. Instead, he must make a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the combination of features involved. The author submits his thoughts on the latter and the guidelines which he, so far, has established for himself.
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On May 7th-9th, 1945, a team of Russian pathologists autopsied several bodies found in and near the Fuehrer Bunker in Berlin; among them, a female body (No. 13) was later identified as that of Eva Braun Hitler (EBH), mainly by means of a gold bridge from the lower right jaw. A postmortem photograph of this bridge also shows a separate gold filling. Data now available on the dental treatment of EBH have permitted the present authors to substantiate that this gold filling also came from the mouth of EBH. Further speculation about the fate of EBH would henceforth seem professionally unfounded.
A six-digit code for dental description is presented. It is intended to simplify the establishment of ante- and postmortem data files in a computer and consists of two digits for designating the individual tooth, two digits for describing the surface or surface combination involved (if any), and two digits for describing treatment type and material. Depending upon the number of teeth present, the dental description of one person may thus comprise from 1 to 32 six-digit numbers, ante- or post-mortem. The comparison by the computer of one antemortem with one postmortem set of numbers is a simple procedure.
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