Indian Journal of Forensic Odontology

Dental caries is most common childhood disease which affects children in their very early stages of development.This also have deleterious effects like troubles in mastication, phonation and modifies esthetics. Post in decayed teeth can be effectively used to reestablish the lost form and function and it also helps in providing retention for coronal tooth structure.
Keywords: Early childhood caries; Post; Primary teeth.

Forensic odontology is a subspecialty of dentistry that has as its principal consciousness on the identity of deceased individuals.This is usually an only one victim however comparisons between submit mortem findings and antemortem dental records had been shown to be the preeminent technique for identification in mass catastrophe conditions. Forensic odontology brings information of orofacial systems, their variant among people of differing ancestry, and the implications of dental remedy to the identification technique forensic Odontologist can nevertheless make a contribution to the identity research in the absence of dental statistics via profiling the deceased the usage of capabilities associated with tooth. teeth with their physiologic versions, pathos and impact of therapy report records that stays throughout life and past. this newsletter explores an perception to forensic odontology and descriptions some of its medico-legal packages in criminal investigations.

Establishing a person's identity is one of the primary objectives of forensic sciences and can involve a very complex procedure. The records collected from the deceased for identification should be accurate and totally inclusive of objective findings. These records can be obtained in the form of finger prints, DNA profiling and dental
records. When a victim is edentulous, information for use in personal identification based on methods available in forensic odontology is much more limited than in the case of dentate victims. Palatal rugae have been considered relevant for human identification due to its stability and individuality, which is comparable to fingerprints. Hence,
this article will provide a review on palatal rugae and its applications in forensic dentistry
 

Teeth are a valuable source of DNA and resistant to adverse conditions such as incineration, immersion, trauma, mutilation, decompositionwhen compared to other parts of the body that are destroyed or degraded in mass disasters, so they are highly useful in forensic investigations. DNA profiling gives an exactidentification of culprits in crime scene investigations, identification of an individual in mass disastersas well as solving paternity issues. It also provides information regarding the physical characteristics, ethnicity and sex determination. The recent advancements in the technology of DNA research have revolutionized the field of forensic odontology and this paper provides an insight in to the recent concepts of DNA profiling in forensic dentistry.