An interview with Dr. Alan Winter

[Anonymous]

Forensic dentistry usually refers to post-mortem remains that use teeth for identification.  (This is the dental version of a medical examiner).  To that extent that a population visits the dentist and has X-rays to be used as reference, forensic dentistry is valuable in all nations.  In a global sense, if there are climatic changes that will cause larger and more frequent disasters, forensic dentistry will play an increasingly important role.  For this reason, we should encourage all people to have baseline dental X-rays.  Dr. Alan Winter