Emilio Nuzzolese, a forensic odontologist, gave a presentation on blockchain technology and its potential applications for forensic human identification. He discussed how blockchain could be used to create decentralized, immutable records of antemortem dental and medical data, postmortem examination findings for unidentified remains, records of missing persons, and disaster victim identification data. This could help streamline the process of comparing ante- and postmortem records to help identify unknown remains or missing persons. Nuzzolese believes blockchain technology may help reduce costs and increase efficiencies in both medicine and forensic identification.

1. EMILIO NUZZOLESE, DDS, MSc, PhD
HOD Forensic Odontology, University of Turin (Italy)
Lecturer in Forensic Dentistry, University of Catanzaro (Italy)
Chairman, Forensic Odontology for Human Rights
President, Dental Team DVI Italia
FORENSIC ODONTOLOGIST
Forensic Dental Identification and0
Blockchain Technology:0
hypothesis,0applications,0trends
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1 December
2018
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2. Blockchain
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9. What is Forensic Odontology?
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10. Emilio&Nuzzolese
• Anthropology
• Criminalistics
• Ballistics
• Forensic dactyloscopy
• Forensic Biology/DNA
• Forensic engineering
• Forensic entomology
• Digital/Multimedia Sciences
• Forensic Pathology
• Forensic Odontology/Dentistry
• Forensic Toxicology
• Forensic Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences

11. Emilio&Nuzzolese
Applications of dental science
to Law and Justice
Relationship of Dentistry
with Legal System
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13. I. Mass and Disaster Victims Identification
II. War and other conflicts Victim Identification
III. Missing and Unidentified Human Remains
IV. Minors and Border Control
V. Homicide
VI. Domestic/Sexual Violence
VII. Child Abuse & Dental Neglect
VIII.Dental evidence on crime scene
IX. Torture
X. Human Trafficking Victims recognition
XI. Patients Rights and Malpractice
XII. Humanitarian Forensic Odontology
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14. What about Human+Identification?
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16. Dental DNA) Fingerprints
Dental DNA) Fingerprints

17. What can'this Technology'do'for'
Forensic Human'Identification?
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18. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/the:list:europe:migrant:
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20. [ICRC $ Missing persons: a handbook for parliamentarians
2009
www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/publication/p1117.htm,
Geneva Convention, AP I: sec. III,art. 32]
An incomplete post mortem assessment
represents a violation of human rights and
international humanitarian law because
Families have the right to know the fate of their
missing relatives and once determined it has been
death, all available means must be undertaken to
ensure recovery of body and personal effects
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21. [Nuzzolese E. Dental autopsy for the identification of missing
persons, J Forensic Dental Sciences, 2018 JanAAprC 10(1): 50A
54]
Post mortem assessment, evidence and data
collection of any unidentified human remains of
unknown nationality should follow DVI principles.
Forensic odontologists should be involved not
only in the PM data collection but also in the AM
dental data input, COMPARISON and
reconciliation.
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24. ! DATA$(mining)
[ante$mortem – post$mortem
! TIME
[from$rescue$to$funeral]
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25. ! Health Data can become automated,
verifiable, immutable, distributed and
decentralized.
! Cost savings in the Healthcare industries.
! All Tests/exams/medical-dental data will be
available to the Healthcare providers:
- reducing costs for heatlhcare industries
- duplications of tests
- Increasing efficency in Medicine as in
Forensic
Blockchain can…+
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26. H CDD H O
Healthcare)
Digital)
Records
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27. P BA O
Autopsy
Postmortem
Data

28. DATA MINING, COLLECTION,
COMPARISON & DELIVERY
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29. Case Use 1
Register all persons with an
unique ID #
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30. Case Use 2
Register Disasters and
list of Injured and Victims
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31. Case Use 3
Register Postmortem Data
Unidentified Persons
(Dental + Secondary Identifiers)
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32. Case Use 4
Register of Missing Persons
Family Reports
(complete with all identifying
characteristics reported)
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33. ! Privacy(
each individual have to(right(to(
access their own information
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34. Jeddy N,'Ravi'S,'Radhika T.'Current trends'in'forensic odontology.'J
Forensic Dent Sci'2017B9:115F9''
Computer-generated dental records gain more
importance due to the fact that it can be easily
networked and transferred for routine
professional consultation or forensic cases
requiring dental records for identification.
…Efforts have to made to maintain the dental
records, which will serve as antemortem data.
Dental Data'and'Trends
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35. Thank You for+Your+Attention!
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