August Vollmer chief of the Los Angles police, established the first American police crime laboratory in 1935 [7]. Even through using bite mark evidence begin around 1870, the first published account involving a conviction based on bite marks as evidence was in the case of Doule V. State which happened in Texas in 1945. The bite mark in this case was on a piece of cheese found at the crime scene of a robbery. The suspect was later asked to bite another piece of cheese for comparison. A firearm examiner and the dentists evaluate the bite marks independently and both concluded that the marks were made by the same set of teeth. The bite marks that found in crime scene on an object or skin used as evidence in future cases [7]. The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profiling technique was first reported in 1985 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the of in . And is new the basis of several national DNA databases [8]. In the spring 1997, The Criminal Justice Information Services division (CJIS) of the FBI created a dental task force (DTF) whose goal is to improve the utilization and effectiveness of the 's (NCIC) Missing and Unidentified Persons (MUP) files [7]. 1.4 Forensic Dentistry Forensic odontology is the of dental applications in legal proceedings. The subject covers a wide variety of topics including individual identification. Mass identification and bite marks analysis. The study of odontology in legal case can be a piece of incriminating evidence or an aspect of wide controversy [4]. One of the earliest known examples of forensic dentistry involved Agrippina, the mother of Roman emperor Nero. In 49 B.C. Agrippina ordered the death of her rival Lollia Paulina, who was in competition with her to be the wife of Emperor Claudius. Agrippina demanded to see Lollia Paulina's head as proof of the death, but she was not sure that her rival was dead until she noticed Lollia Paulina's distinctive discolored front teeth [4]. Another famous jump for the forensic dentistry was that of Paul Revere (1825), who besides being a blacksmith was also a dentist. He helped identify Revolutionary War dead who had been buried on the battlefield by their teeth and dental work. was able to identify Dr. Joseph Warren, the man who sent him on his
August Vollmer chief of the Los Angles police, established the first American police crime laboratory in 1935 [7]. Even through using bite mark evidence begin around 1870, the first published account involving a conviction based on bite marks as evidence was in the case of Doule V. State which happened in Texas in 1945. The bite mark in this case was on a piece of cheese found at the crime scene of a robbery. The suspect was later asked to bite another piece of cheese for comparison. A firearm examiner and the dentists evaluate the bite marks independently and both concluded that the marks were made by the same set of teeth. The bite marks that found in crime scene on an object or skin used as evidence in future cases [7]. The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profiling technique was first reported in 1985 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the of in . And is new the basis of several national DNA databases [8]. In the spring 1997, The Criminal Justice Information Services division (CJIS) of the FBI created a dental task force (DTF) whose goal is to improve the utilization and effectiveness of the 's (NCIC) Missing and Unidentified Persons (MUP) files [7]. 1.4 Forensic Dentistry Forensic odontology is the of dental applications in legal proceedings. The subject covers a wide variety of topics including individual identification. Mass identification and bite marks analysis. The study of odontology in legal case can be a piece of incriminating evidence or an aspect of wide controversy [4]. One of the earliest known examples of forensic dentistry involved Agrippina, the mother of Roman emperor Nero. In 49 B.C. Agrippina ordered the death of her rival Lollia Paulina, who was in competition with her to be the wife of Emperor Claudius. Agrippina demanded to see Lollia Paulina's head as proof of the death, but she was not sure that her rival was dead until she noticed Lollia Paulina's distinctive discolored front teeth [4]. Another famous jump for the forensic dentistry was that of Paul Revere (1825), who besides being a blacksmith was also a dentist. He helped identify Revolutionary War dead who had been buried on the battlefield by their teeth and dental work. was able to identify Dr. Joseph Warren, the man who sent him on his
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