Talk:Forensic dentistry

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 January 2022 and 15 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Vandkate, Jennahughson, Kelseycheff24 (article contribs).

Dental records redirects here

. . . but the entire article is about bite marks. I always thought dental records were used to identify an otherwise-decayed corpse. (Teeth last longer than flesh; man-made dental work -- fillings, bridgework, crowns, implants, etc. -- lasts even longer than teeth, and is probably more distinctive: everyone starts with basically the same set of teeth, but very few people are going to have identical patterns of decay or other damage.) Have I been misunderstanding the term all these years, or is there something missing from the article? 71.248.115.187 (talk) 23:41, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 17 August 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. Calidum 02:34, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

---

Forensic dentistry → Forensic odontology – reason: Forensic odontology is the accepted name for this forensic discipline. Both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Society of Forensic Odontology use this terminology. Purpose that forensic odontology be the main page and forensic dentistry be a redirect. Stabila711 (talk) 10:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 23:04, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose: what do the non-US associations say? A Scholar search returns 1000 more entries for the current title. More evidence is needed than what two US-based organisations commonly use. Regards, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 20:09, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Australian Society of Forensic Odontology, The Indian Association of Forensic Odontology, British Association for Forensic Odontology, International Association for Identification use of "Odontology". It is not just an American thing. Odontology is the recognized name for that particular forensic field. --Stabila711 (talk) 20:44, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

• Comment What is the common name ? Is the proposal the WP:JARGON name or the WP:COMMONNAME ? Ie, what do news reports refer to it as, books about disasters and real crime books, and police officers, etc? -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 04:59, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

News reports are about half and half really. I am sure anyone can pick out reports that say either way. For example, 1, 2, and 3 use the word "odontology." However, this one uses the word "dentistry." As to the police officers I can only say that officers I have worked with call it odontology. This is of course original research so it doesn't count but police reports are usually confidential and are not typically released online so it is really impossible to tell either way. For books on the subject. They are also about half and half. 1 and 2 use odontology. While 3 and 4 use dentistry. Those practicing the field, those that attend conferences and symposiums, all use odontology (again original research but I have been to plenty conferences and they all use odontology). --Stabila711 (talk) 05:11, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

---

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Forensic dentistry. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120328133927/http://www.forensic-dentistry.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Biblio_2_Taylor_1963_BDJ1.pdf to http://www.forensic-dentistry.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Biblio_2_Taylor_1963_BDJ1.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:46, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Is bite mark evidence still accepted in court?

Unless I missed it the article does not address this critical issue. Wiki name (talk) 03:13, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Etymology of iDENTity?

This seemed an appropriate place to raise the issue. Was the noun "identity" and related concepts like "identification" derived from the subject of teeth, e.g. bite marks? Found myself wondering. knoodelhed (talk) 07:11, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

This would be an appropriate starting point for treating the history of forensic dentistry. The most common incident requiring forensic analysis of dentition and associated tissues for most of the preceding 100 years or so has been the necessity of identifying the remains of a person suffering a catastrophic accident. Today, it is most likely that remains would be identified by fingerprint and DNA analysis. But formerly it was done by dental records. Consider the case of a person riding a motorcycle in the days when jeans, a t-shirt, and boots were common riding garb who "face plants" at high speed. Not an uncommon occurrence. In most cases a "local dentist" would be pressed into service to create dentition records from the teeth extracted from the sinuses and brain of the deceased. These records would then be circulated among likely dentists until a match was found.

Pseudoscience?

Given the unreliability of the method it is surely appropriately labelled as pseudoscence. So labelling as such; happy of course to progress here if reverted. Springnuts (talk) 08:26, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seminars in Forensic Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2023 and 6 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ringettem7 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Kb.fors3017 (talk) 17:12, 20 January 2023 (UTC)