Forensic odontology is a branch of forensic medicine which, deals with the proper examination, handling and presentation of dental

evidence in court of law. The forensic odontologist deal with: identification of bite marks on the victims of attack, comparison of bite marks with the teeth of a suspect and presentation of the evidence in court as an expert witness, identification of bite marks in other substances such as wood, leather and foodstuffs, identification of unknown bodies through dental records, age estimation of skeletal remnant. The most common role of the forensic dentist is the identification of deceased individuals.1 Dental identification takes two main forms. Firstly the most frequently performed examination is a comparative identification is used to establish the remnants of a decedent and a person represented by antemortem dental records are of the same individual. Information from the body or circumstances usually contains clues of the victim. Secondly, in those cases where antemortem records are not available, and no clues to the possible identity exist, a postmortem dental profile is completed by the forensic dentist suggesting characteristics of the individual likely to confine the search for the antemortem materials.2 Dental identification of human being plays an important role in criminal, monetary disputes marital, social, burial, and identification of individual missing for prolonged periods. 3 Identification plays an important role in civil cases like insurance claims, matrimonial disputes, property disputes, impersonation, and issue of passport, and various licences. Identification of the dead body or remnants of a human body are essential in the establishment of a criminal case. Disfigurement or mutilation in mass casualties may be near total. It is very difficult to established the identity of an individual who has been a victim of mass disaster, like i.e. violent crimes, fire accident, road traffic accidents or work place accident.4 Reliable identification of such mutilated bodies are not possible by the family members.5 Persons who have been deceased for some time prior to discovery and those found in water also present unpleasant and difficult visual identifications. Dental identifications plays an important role in the identification of casualties associated with aviation disasters.6 Due to lack of a comprehensive fingerprint database, dental identification continues to be crucial for vast population. 7