New Possibilities of Using Orthopantomograms and Dental and Hard Palate Casts for Personal Identification

There were carried out anthropometric investigations (n=460), radiological investigations of facial skull (n=150), and studied stone casts, as well as hard palate mucosal imprints (n=160) of Armenian unidentified dead bodies to determine anatomic and morphological features of dentition in order to use the data for personal identification. There were studied anatomic and morphological features of dentition, orthopantomograms, premolar and molar indices obtained when examining stone casts, distribution features of side folds of hard palate mucosa revealed in Armenians. There were determined the most informative clinical, radiographic, and morphological types of dentition anomalies in Armenians. Most informative morphological features of hard palate mucosal relief in Armenian population were revealed.