Dentomaxillofacial radiology in forensics- a review

Radiology has been used extensively in conventional dental identification, anatomically based identification and identification using maxillofacial skeletal landmarks.1Radiographs carry great evidence to act as antemortem records and also assist in identifying the persons age, gender, race, etc. Forensic dentistry is also emerging as a new branch in forensics. Forensic dentistry is an emerging new branch in forensics in which forensic dentist must be aware of different techniques and resources to incorporate the technology in order to achieve success in human identification. So, expertise knowledge and proper application of maxillofacial radiological techniques hasa valuable role in forensic identification and solvingmedico-legal cases.2 The purpose of this paper was to revisit the methods where radiographic methods may be used to determine identity of an individual using craniofacial structures.