forensic dentistry

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The application of dentistry to legal problems, as in using the teeth for identifying the dead.

The law as it applies to the practice of dentistry.legal dentistry

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Which Word of the Day means “happening within or being the created world of a story”?

“The golden age of Parisian smiles nurtured, and was nurtured by, the rise of dentistry as a vocation,” writes Jones.
The French Court’s Royal Ban on Smiles|William O’Connor|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Forensic tests showed the birds died after becoming coated in sludge, Hubbard said.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To what extent was the testimony the grand jury heard corroborated or contradicted by forensic evidence?
Ferguson’s Grand Jury Bought Darren Wilson’s Story|Paul Campos|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If true, it will have a discernable consistency with the forensic evidence.
There’s No Conspiracy in Ferguson’s Secret Jury|Paul Callan|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I found the section of the book on forensic archaeology fascinating.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The highly expensive but most advantageous service of dentistry may be paid for by the guardians.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb
He had a vanity easily lacerated, and he was now too savage to abate the ferocity of his forensic attack.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete|Gilbert Parker
But it was in forensic eloquence that Cicero was pre-eminent, in which he had but one equal in ancient times.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
It was oddly like the feeling of a dentist's reception-room; only it was for me to do the dentistry with clumsy, cruel hands.
The New Machiavelli|Herbert George Wells
Knowing dentistry, I saw the possibilities of disguise by wearing differently shaped sets of teeth.
The Winning Clue|James Hay, Jr.