Review Article

Year : 2016 | Volume : 1 | Issue : 1 | Page : 6 -8

Dental Tags

Saranya Dhanapal, Jayaprakash MJ Divyanand

From the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Saveetha Dental College, Chennai,

Tamil Nadu, India

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Saranya Dhanapal, E‐mail: Saranyadhanapal22@gmail.com

Abstract

Dental professions have a major role to play in keeping accurate dental records and providing all necessary information, so that legal authorities may recognize negligence, fraud or abuse and identify unknown human. Forensic organizations worldwide have recommended that dental prosthesis should be labelled with at least the patient’s name and preferably with further unique identifiers such as serial number etc. Serial numbers can be suggested in the following dental prosthesis like Crowns, Dentures, and Implants.

Key Words: Denture identification, forensic dentistry, forensic odontology, identification tags

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Conflicts of interest

There are no conflicts of interest.

How to cite this article:

Dhanapal S, Divyanand JM. Dental tags. Int J Forensic Odontol 2016;1:6-8.