Abstract

Retinal pattern, finger prints and DNA are unique and bite marks are often registered at the assault cases of the skin of the victims and effective method which is very helpful in identifying the criminals. Human bites are an alternative. The challenge in forensic dentistry is analysing the bite in human beings because the distortion of the human bite won’t give the exact mirror image of the bite, which complicate the investigators to identify the crime. Human bite changes with the time when the measurements taken. Hence, a broad search of published literature was performed electronically using the keyword human bite, identifying crime, human bite analysis technique from January 1974 to December 2018. Medline, Google scholar and text books. This article analyzis the methods of human bite recording and for identifying the criminals in forensic sciences.

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