Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Abstract

In the present context of commercialized medical practice, there is a strong public feeling that doctors have become traders. Doctors, on the other hand, have reacted in a contradictory manner. Some have found the label ‘trader’ offensive and refuse to participate in any debate on the subject. Others have accepted that a large part of present day medical practice is nothing, but trading by qualified as well as non-qualified medical persons

Keywords Ethics, Doctor Patient Relationship, Consent ,Medical Negligence.

Abstract

An indicator “Time of death” is very pertinent for the investigating agency to initiate the scrutiny regarding the death and ultimately to connect the criminal with crime. Estimation of sodium and glucose in synovial fluid obtained from knee joint of 123 cadavers revealed not significant changes in concentration of sodium and glucose with increase in time since death.

Keywords Synovial fluid, Glucose, Sodium, Post-mortem interval.

Abstract

Forensic odontology is a lineage that deals in relation to jaws and teeth as an evidence to law and justice. Tooth serves a prime importance in the context of sex identification. This study is an odontometric analysis performed on dental casts with a sample of 952 teeth (476male: 476 female) which were obtained from Dept. of Orthodontics PMNM dental college Bagalkot. Mesiodistal and Buccolingual dimension of each tooth crown was measured with a caliper device and statistical analysis for significance of sexual dimorphism was done with student’s t test. The result showed that sexual dimorphism is significant in relation to mesiodistal diameter of canine (p=0.007 maxilla p=0.003 mandible) and buccolingual diameter of canine (p=0.012 maxilla, p=0.015 mandible) followed by mandibular premolar (p=0.016) but less significant in case of lower lateral incisors (p=0.013). Furthermore, there was statistical significant difference in tooth crown dimension between males and females where the males showed higher mean values. The results of the current investigation are of great value to the anthropologist as well as to the forensic odontologist in understanding dimensional variation in genders.

Key words Odontometry, Tooth dimensions, Forensic

A post-mortem study was conducted to differentiate male and female sternum. A total 100 sternums of adult individuals (56 males & 44 females) were obtained from the cases brought for autopsy to the Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi between the periods August 2005 to March 2007. Our study concluded that the sternal index was not reliable for determining sex.