Dental Identification of a Decomposed Body

The dental identification of humans occurs for a number of different reasons, mainly in those cases when the body is fragmentized or disfigured and visual recognition cannot be done. The advanced step of putrefaction disables determination of identity by recognition. We report the case of an unknown man, found near Gjakova district, in 2000. The body was in advanced step of putrefaction. The identity of victim was unknown. The post mortem dental identification was done in the Institute of Forensic Medicine in prishtina. The availability of dental records and radiographs allowed as to positively identify the body using teeth comparison method.