Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Forensic odontology is a Latin word meaning “forum” for legal matter discussion. It's an area of dentistry where dental knowledge is applied for criminal and civil laws in justification. It is involved in the investigations to identify recovered human remains. It helps in determination of age, race, occupation, previous dental history and socioeconomic status of unidentified human beings. Comparison of ante-mortem and post-mortem dental records assists in identification. Thus forensic odontology has ignited lot of interest in the recent past that it has become a single positive method for identification in solving forensic cases.