[Identification systems for dental prostheses using fluorescence techniques]

The dental description of unknown or missing persons in case of mass disasters such as fire, drowning and individual accidents is a very successful odontological mean of identification in forensic research. Difficulties arise if the natural dentition is gone for one reason or another or has been replaced by a dental prothesis. From a dental-prosthetic point of view, this can be prevented by using denture marking in order to give this registration a more personal character, an application from the fluorescence technique was chosen, enabling to mark the denture base with an adequate and inconspicuous code when fabricating the prothesis. This preventive registration may be read in the visible spectrum with the proper equipment at a specific frequency. In view to an increase in the percentage of old people and inherently an increased use of prosthetic appliances with this population, registration by means of the fluorescence technique will be most useful to the forensic odontologist in his identification research. Other useful indications are patients in hospitals, parental homes, nursing-homes and mental homes. To prevent exchange or the loss of prosthetics.