While human identification is a crucial aspect of medico-legal investigations, many
individuals remain unidentified each year across the world. The burden of unidentified …

Due to increasingly numerous international migrations, estimating the age of
unaccompanied minors is becoming of enormous significance for forensic professionals …

Assessment of legal age, also known as age of majority, is a controversial issue as there are
few body biomarkers or evidence during late adolescence differentiating a subject from …

The identification of human remains relies on the comparison of post-mortem data, collected
during the autopsy, with the ante-mortem data gathered from the missing persons' reports …

The estimation of age in living subjects is today a significant issue because of the increase
in the situations in which it arises and its legal consequences. In line with the Study Group …

Aim From a medico-legal and penalty point of view, it is essential to conclude if an individual
is a minor or an adult (18 years of age). Methods based on the third molar development …

Age estimation from teeth by radiological analysis, in both children and adolescents, has
wide applications in several scientific and forensic fields. In 2006, Cameriere et al. proposed …

Forensic odontology is the application of dentistry within the criminal justice system.
Forensic expertise, including dental identification, mostly relies on dental records. We …

The essay asks what naming a body does, politically. It begins by examining practices of
memory when people are missing after wars, terrorist attacks, or disappearances: when we …

Unidentified human remains with unknown medical history can always pose biological
hazards to forensic pathologists and odontologists, including hepatitis C, HIV infection …