A importância da documentação odontológica no IML para a identificação humana

Abstract

Dental documentation is a set of information that records through oral or written data the patient's general and oral health and all dental procedures performed. When it is well detailed and archived, it becomes fundamental to legal order in situations that require the use of medical records and / or imaging, in ethical, administrative, civil and criminal proceedings. The use of this documentation is done through a comparative technique, low cost and reliable. The objective of this científic work was to elucidate the importance of dental documentation in the IML for the human identification of carbonized, fragmented or decomposed bodies, with no possibility of identification by papiloscopy. To illustrate this científic work, two cases occurred in Alagoas, in which the first one reported the deficiency of dental documentation, implying that it is impossible to resolve by the legal dentistry due to the absence of comparative data, different from the second one that was found with the documentation adequate to contribute to the científic work of odontolegistas, as well as in the legal process involving death. It is concluded that good dental documentation is of great importance, as is the role of dental practitioners in cases of post-mortem identification.