Online paper submission »

The role of the dentist in disaster victim identification – INTERPOL standards and forms

Kliknij autora aby wyszukać wszystkie publikowane przez niego artykuły:
Dorota Lorkiewicz-Muszyńska, Mariusz Glapiński, Agnieszka Przystańska



2/2013/XLI s. 83–88
Click to return to issue contents
83_2_41_2013.pdf
Digital version of article (in PDF file)

Fraza do cytowania: Lorkiewicz-Muszyńska D., Glapiński M., Przystańska A. The role of the dentist in disaster victim identification – INTERPOL standards and forms. Dental Forum. 2013;XLI(2):83–88.

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) is a series of coordinated and multidisciplinary procedures used to recover and identify all the victims of a mass fatality incident. The identification by dental means is a quick and easy method that requires the comparison of antemortem data obtained from the general dental practitioner with the postmortem data completed at the place of the disaster. The comparative analysis of the dental status is effective enough to be recognised by INTERPOL as one of three primary identification methods (together with fingerprints and DNA analysis). Disaster victim identification at the place of an incident is the responsibility of the forensic odontologists among the DVI team members. However, every single dental practitioner can be asked to help in the identification of victims. The main responsibility of the dental practitioner is then to deliver the most reliable and complete dental records, ideally by means of the Interpol AM form available on its website. The article presents the basic information on how to use the pink and yellow INTERPOL F2 forms.

Key words: disaster victim identification, forensic odontology.





Copyright © 1989–2024 Dental Forum. All rights reserved.