Survey of dental hygienists' and dental hygienist students' attitudes towards body identification tasks of unidentified human remains.
Noboru IshikawaMiku YamasawaKei KitamuraHidetaka KurodaHitoshi YamamotoPublished in: International journal of dental hygiene (2020)
It is necessary to consider the curriculum content and timing of lectures and practices related to body identification tasks. Participation limited to the creation of post-mortem records, except for the creation of antemortem records requiring diagnosis and treatment knowledge and the matching task of antemortem records and post-mortem records, should be considered to prevent the tasks of dental hygienists from excessively expanding. If dental hygienists train properly, intraoral findings records can be drawn up by a team consisting of 1 dentist and 1 dental hygienist. Therefore, it is expected that the use of forensic dental identification, which is a relatively quick identification method, will be further improved.