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Tooth Morphology as the Basis of Dental Identification: Case Report
Hrvoje Brkić
; Zavod za dentalnu antropologiju Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jadranka Keros-Naglić
; Zavod za dentalnu antropologiju Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Odontogenesis of permanent teeth in its major part belongs to the process of postnatal growth and continues for many years following the birth or an individual. After the child is born her or his organism and all the tissues establish a much more dynamic relationship with the external environment than they do during intrauterine life. In this way conditions are made for numerous external factors to affect the formation activity of tooth organs. Disorders in the development of teeth and other structures within the oral cavity may occur at any stage of organogenetic growth. Fused teeth, apart from their causing aesthetic impairment, may on account of their enlarged mesiodistal diameter affect the entire dental arch morphology and cause compression of the frond dental region, rotation and malposition of the approximate teeth. In this case report the presence of such an anomaly facilitated accurate and reliable identification of a victim killed during 1991. when war raged in Croatia, and exhumed from the mass grave in Petrinja in 1995. The specific morphological shape of the victim's dentition undoubtedly contributed to accurate identification of this young male, which was additionally substantiated by other available material evidence.
Keywords
tooth fusion; tooth morphology
Hrčak ID:
97653
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Publication date:
15.9.1999.
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