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FACULTAD DE ODONTOLOGA
REGIN VERACRUZ
TESIS
CIRUJANO DENTISTA
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ABSTRACT
Through history, forensic odontology has been useful mainly for individualization and corpses
identification. However, in some cases the process of necro-identification becomes difficult, as it
is in both natural disasters and anthropogenic, violent deaths where the victim is deformed
intentionally, and those natural deaths in which the body is deformed by taphonomic factors. It
is in these cases where forensic odontology can be very useful, this due to the characteristic
hardness of dental tissues and his permanence compared to other body tissues. The
odontometry emerges as a tool of dental anthropology, and applied for study of morphometric
parameters of the teeth. Data such as: ancestry, sex, age, and height, can be estimated by
diverse odontometric studies. Diverse sources mention as through dental dimensions can
approximate the racial group or ancestral fellowship, sexual dimorphism parameters, dentin
mineralization degrees, periodontosis, apexification, stages associated with age, among other
data, and this information can be useful in the forensic context.
The proper use of methods like the odontometry, can be an auxiliary or unique tool to obtain
the identify of corpses.
Keywords: Forensic odontology, odontometry, taphonomy, dental anthropology, sexual
dimorphism, ancestry, apexification.