Role of Smile Photo Analysis in Forensic Identification

In certain cases, the victim being analyzed may not have clinical records showing relevant odontologic characteristics. Therefore, experts in the practice of human identification currently search for information from alternative sources, such as facial photographs, video recording or smile photographs that show specific characteristics of each individual. Established the importance of diagrams of dental aesthetic references (DDAR), where a smile can reveal dental relationships of symmetry, dental axis, gum contours, interdental contacts, incisal edges, teeth proportions and smile lines. The importance of searching for new parameters of human identification using odontologic characteristics, the importance of the forensic odontology analysis of smile photographs in human identification has been reviewed in this paper.