I am researching about different dental identification methods such as manually or automatically? I want to know which automated dental identification method is used lately by DVI team or by forensic odontologists?
Interesting! What's this? Whould you be so kind to provide more info?
I would suggest Win ID ( http://www.winid.com/ ). It is an electronic method of decreasing the number of potential victim/remains pairs to aid in a scientific match. It does not "identify" but it will help to limit the number of potential victims per set of remains. It was developed by Dr. Jim McGivney and is FREE to download and use. It can sort by "most matches" or by "fewest mismatches". It has various language translations as well. One issue that has made airline DVI easier is the necessity of passengers to have a photo ID (at least here in the US) to board. Previously the manifest was often questionable. In non-aviation incidents the universe of potential victims sometimes is more difficult. I have had DVI experience and would be answer other questions you may have.
thank you all for the responses. i have a question to Mr. Williams about the DVI experience. Can you please tell me the DVI processes based on dental identification. Did you achieve it with automated dental identification systems or via dental charts? did you use the Hofer and Marana's denta biometric system or Nomir and Abdel-mottaleb's dental identification method based on X-ray dental radiographs taken antemortem and postmortem? How did you achieve the identification?
Thank you.
İbrahim.
I have not used either Hofer and Marana's dental biometric system or Nomir and Abdel-Mottaleb's dental identification methods. Many of the radiographs we used in the past were not digitalized and thus there would be the additional steps of digitalizing the Ante-mortem radiographs. This added to the differences in angulation of the individual radiographs tends to reduce the serviceability of these techniques, particularly in a large MFI. Following the input of ante-mortem and post-mortem data into WinID, a list of potential matches is produced to decrease the universe of potential victims to just a few. Comparison of findings, both clinically (when possible) and radiographically can then commence with the outcome of a scientific identification of the individuals. There have been cases where very few data points are available, and information such as the shape of the margin of a single crown or even bony trabecular pattern (think of sinus radiographs in medical identification) can lead to an identification. It would be nice if in each case the radiographs could be compared with a percent of pixel agreement of a data points aidis the identification, but I think this is in the future.
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