Dental identification of war victims from Petrinja in Croatia

被引:30
作者
Brkic, H
Strinovic, D
Slaus, M
Skavic, J
Zecevic, D
Milicevic, M
机构
[1] UNIV ZAGREB, SCH DENT MED, SECT FORENS ODONTOL, HR-10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA
[2] UNIV ZAGREB, SCH MED, DEPT FORENS MED & CRIMINOL, ZAGREB 41001, CROATIA
[3] CROATIAN ACAD SCI & ARTS, DEPT ARCHAEOL, ZAGREB, CROATIA
[4] PRIVATE DENT CLIN, ZAGREB, CROATIA
关键词
teeth; identification; forensic dentistry; mass graves; prosthetic appliance; war victims;
D O I
10.1007/s004140050029
中图分类号
DF [法律]; D9 [法律]; R [医药、卫生];
学科分类号
0301 ; 10 ;
摘要
In this paper the authors report their experiences and problems encountered in the identification of war victims from Petrinja in Croatia. Soon after Croatian forces regained Petrinja in 1995, four mass graves were discovered from which the bodies of 46 civilians, 38 males and 8 females, were recovered. Identification of the victims was performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the School of Medicine in Zagreb. A forensic odonto-stomatologist from the Department of Dental Anthropology of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Zagreb participated in the identification process by carrying out dental identifications. A total of 27 victims (59%) were identified, while 19 (41%) are at present still unidentified. Identification by supportive and anthropological evidence (e.g. sex, age, height, personal documents, dress, jewellery) was achieved in 43% of cases, while identification based only on dental records was achieved in 16%. The most useful dental characteristics for the purpose of identification were fixed and removable prosthetic appliances for oral rehabilitation. The reason for the low number of dental identifications was the lack of antemortem dental data which could be compared with postmortem dental records.
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