Dental Forensics

1. Computation
al Forensic

2. quantitative approach to the methodology of
the forensic sciences. It involves computer-
based modeling, computer simulation,
analysis, and recognition in studying and
solving problems posed in various forensic
disciplines.

3. In dentistry….
• Dental information is useful for personal
identification. For example, a method
identification of contour of teeth detected by
the active contour method proprosed by Jain
and Chen
• Quantitative evaluation with more teeth data
– Method of extracting a tooth shape aided by
computer tomography images