CSI Forensics

CSI and its offshoots CSI Miami and CSI New York are all very popular TV programmes.

CSI or Crime Scene Investigation would involve some dental input. When there is an unidentified victim or the presence of bite marks on a victim, dental expertise is frequently required to process the data to identify the victim or the perpetrator.

DVI or Disaster Victim Identification also involves some dental input. Here, the forensic dentists are involved in the identification process where the effects of the incident, e.g. tsunami, accident (aircraft crash or ship sinking) or terrorist attack renders visual identification impossible. They compare previous dental records with the dental remains.

As the dental examination is very involved, it is usually the bottleneck in the DVI process during mass casualty scenario.

It is therefore important that our patients' records are regularly updated.