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Forensic Odontology Timeline
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Forensic Odontology Timeline
By: Ken
First Forensic Identification in India
Development of Dental X-ray
First Use of Dental Evidence in a
Court Case
First Recorded Case of Forensic Odontology
First Comprehensive Text on Forensic Odontology
1193-Forensic Odontology was first used in India when Raja of Kanauji was identified by his false teeth.
1896-The use of Dental X-ray proved useful in many ways including keeping records. These records help investigators make easier connections with the dental evidence they have.
1814- When Dr. Granville Sheep Pattison and two of his students in Scotland were accused for violating Mrs. Mc Alister's grave, Dr. James Alexander testified that the maxillary denture of one of the heads in the dissection room fit Mrs. Alister.
1898- Dr. Oscar Amoedo wrote a thesis called "L'Art Dentaire en Medicine Legale" which served as a basis for his book that became the first comprehensive text on forensic odontology and gave him the title "Father of Forensic Odontology",
49 AD- The identification of Lollia Paulina is considered to be the first reported case of forensic odontology. Agrippina, Roman Emperor Claudius' new wife ordered for Lollia Paulina to be executed. To confirm that it was Lollia Paulina, she instructed the soldiers to bring her the victim's severed head so she can recognize the strange features of her dentition.
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First US Forensic Dentist
Earliest Dental Identification Case
Forensic Odontology used to convict a murder for the first time
First case of Forensic Dental Age Estimation
Forensic Dentistry was Defined by Keiser-Neilson
1776- Paul Revere became America's first Forensic Dentist when he identified Dr. Joseph Warren in a mass grave during the American Revolution. Paul Revere was able to identify the ivory dentures he crafted and wired to Warren’s jaw.
1897- The first case of dental identification occurred when one hundred and twenty-six members of the Parisian aristocracy were burned to death in a fire in Paris on May 4th 1897.
66 AD- Roman Emperor Nero's mistress, Sabina, was able to confirm that the head presented to her on a platter was Nero's wife because she was able to recognize her black anterior tooth.
1970- Keiser-Neilson defined Forensic Odontology as “that branch of forensic medicine which in the interest of justice deals with the proper handling and examination of dental evidence and with the proper evaluation and presentation of the dental findings.”
1849- The Parkman case was the first time dental evidence was used to convict a murderer. When Dr. Parkman failed to return home on November of 1849. John Webster, who owed Parkman some money was investigated. They searched his laboratory and found a chest containing human remains. They also found fragments of a maxillary jaw in the furnace. Dr. Parkman’s dentist, Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep, identified the teeth as part of the dentures he made previously for the victim.