Evaluation of Techniques for Dental and Dna Identification for Mass Disaster Victim
Evaluation of techniques for Dental and DNA identification for mass disaster victim
Introduction:
A mass disaster is an unanticipated event that results in serious injury and death to a large number of people. Mass disaster can be categorised into three categories, natural disasters, accidental disasters or even intentional terrorism acts. Natural disasters could include events such as earthquake, flooding or tsunamis. Accidental disasters could be associated with events aircraft, ship or train collision. While terrorism acts may include airplane hijacking or suicide bombings (Alonso, A., Martin, P., Albarran, C et al., 2005). Traumatic experiences such as those mentioned above results in a large number of unidentified victims, this is when disaster victim identification comes into play.
Disaster victim identification (DVI) is a necessary task that must be undertaken after any mass fatality incident (Graham, E.A.M., 2006). This responsibility involves many specialists from search, rescue, and recovery teams to forensic pathologists, odontologists and anthropologists, which assist in identifying the deceased (Hemphill, L.T., 2005).
There is a variety of different techniques available for disaster victim identification which include visual identification, fingerprinting, DNA typing, radiology, inspection of unique medical features and dental comparisons (Hemphill, L.T., 2005).
The purpose of this paper is to analysis and evaluate techniques associated with identification of victims based on DNA analysis and dental characteristics. As many studies have shown that DNA analysis and dental identification are the most reliable and effective ways of identifying remains of disaster victims. To evaluate the two methods mentioned above this study will identify factors which influence the accuracy of victim identification as well as its benefits and limits.
Discussion:
Dental Characteristics:
Forensic examiners have a variety of techniques to
Introduction:
A mass disaster is an unanticipated event that results in serious injury and death to a large number of people. Mass disaster can be categorised into three categories, natural disasters, accidental disasters or even intentional terrorism acts. Natural disasters could include events such as earthquake, flooding or tsunamis. Accidental disasters could be associated with events aircraft, ship or train collision. While terrorism acts may include airplane hijacking or suicide bombings (Alonso, A., Martin, P., Albarran, C et al., 2005). Traumatic experiences such as those mentioned above results in a large number of unidentified victims, this is when disaster victim identification comes into play.
Disaster victim identification (DVI) is a necessary task that must be undertaken after any mass fatality incident (Graham, E.A.M., 2006). This responsibility involves many specialists from search, rescue, and recovery teams to forensic pathologists, odontologists and anthropologists, which assist in identifying the deceased (Hemphill, L.T., 2005).
There is a variety of different techniques available for disaster victim identification which include visual identification, fingerprinting, DNA typing, radiology, inspection of unique medical features and dental comparisons (Hemphill, L.T., 2005).
The purpose of this paper is to analysis and evaluate techniques associated with identification of victims based on DNA analysis and dental characteristics. As many studies have shown that DNA analysis and dental identification are the most reliable and effective ways of identifying remains of disaster victims. To evaluate the two methods mentioned above this study will identify factors which influence the accuracy of victim identification as well as its benefits and limits.
Discussion:
Dental Characteristics:
Forensic examiners have a variety of techniques to
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