Percepción del uso de odontogramas en odontólogos bolivianos para la identificación forense

Abstract

Dental records are considered today of great importance for the corpse identification process, so that through them the victim can be precisely individualized. The existence of various protocols for the registration of odontograms, makes dentists have certain difficulties and doubts at the time of carrying out this action since they do not keep complete records of their patients, which does not allow having a true document within a legal process , when it comes to identifying corpses if the situation warrants it. The objective of this research is to propose a protocol for the registration of odontograms and identostomatograms already established (Peru), for the identification of human remains, whether intact or fragmented, that accurately or objectively represents the various clinical conditions (pathologies-Treatments) of each tooth. From the total population of dentists attached to the College of Dentists of the city of Sucre and with a minimum of 10 years of seniority (379), using a statistical formula for a finite population, a sample of 191 dentists was obtained, to whom it was applied a survey.The professionals were randomly selected by simple random sampling, without replacement.The majority of dental professionals, 64%, consider it important to have a protocol for the registration of odontograms and identostomatograms and thus also consider that the standardization of the symbols used will help to record dental examination data in both clinical dentistry, as in forensic dentistry.