Forensic Dentistry

Medicina Dentária Forense

Curse code:9548507

Eduardo Orlando de Barros Fernandes

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

• Acquire and develop knowledge and skills from previous courses to its practical application in this new discipline
• Acquire knowledge and theoretical foundations that allow the development to which it proposes to Forensic Dentistry
• Encourage and stimulate the need to acquire knowledge after graduation
• Stimulating readings and reviews of articles and publications relating to this matter

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Forensic Dentistry
2. Forensic Dentistry: definition, historical data
3. Objectives in Forensic Dentistry.
4. Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences.
5. Human identification by dental signs; the importance of updated clinical history and medical records in Dentistry; the importance of recording all clinical acts, radiological and prosthetic data.
6. Non-dental identification techiques
7. Tooth and dental filling resistance to physical and chemical agents
8. Dental identification techiques
9. Human Identification - disaster
10. Human Identification - reconstructive methods
11. Marking of dentures: techniques and objectives
12. Bite marks
13. Medical-legal aspects of violence
14. Medico-legal autopsy - objectives
15. Three-dimensional evaluation of bodily harm, injury, function and situation - as part of Legal Medicine, in Labour Law, Civil and Criminal

Suggested Bibliography:

• MOYA PUEYO, Vicente, e outros ‘Odontologia legal y forense’/Vicente Moya Pueyo, Bernabé Roldán Garrido, José Antonio Sánchez Sánchez. – Barcelona: Masson, 1994. – XX, 396 p: il, tabelas
• Alvarez F. J. ‘La boca e sus possibilidades identificativas’ (1998) Revista de La Escuela de Segurança Pública de Andalucía
• Vanrell J.P. (2002) Odontologia Legal e Antropogia Forense 1ª ed. – Editora Guanabara Koogan S.S
• Bowers, c.m.;bell – Manual of Forensic Odonthology
• Medicina Dentaria Forense/ Coord. Cristiana Palmela Pereira. – Lisboa: Lidel, 2012. – XVI
• Abad L. J. S. (2006), ‘Avances en Medicina Forense: toxicologia forense’, Revista de la escuela de medicina legal, Mayo de 2007
• Avon S. L., Mayhall J. T., Wood R. E. (2006), ‘Clinical and Histopathological Examination of Experimental Bite Marks In-Vivo’, Journal of Forensic Odontostomatology, vol.24
• Barros G. B. (2006), ‘Queiloscopia: uso da técnica na identificação forense’ Tese de Mestrado Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil