@misc{10481/76945,
year = {2022},
month = {8},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/76945},
abstract = {Veterinary forensics is becoming more important in our society as a result of the growing
demand for investigations related to crimes against animals or investigations of criminal deaths
caused by animals. A veterinarian may participate as an expert witness or may be required to give
forensic assistance, by providing knowledge of the specialty to establish a complete picture of the
involvement of an animal and allowing the Courts to reach a verdict. By applying diverse dental
profiling techniques, not only can species, sex, age-at-death, and body size of an animal be estimated,
but also data about their geographical origin (provenance) and the post-mortem interval. This review
concentrates on the dental techniques that use the characteristics of teeth as a means of identification
of freshly deceased and skeletonised animals. Furthermore, this highlights the information that can
be extracted about the animal from the post-mortem dental profile.},
organization = {Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID) of Chile	ANID FONDECYT 1211534},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Veterinary forensics},
keywords = {Carcasses},
keywords = {Teeth},
keywords = {Species identification},
keywords = {Sex estimation},
keywords = {Age-at-death estimation},
keywords = {Body size estimation},
keywords = {Geographical origin},
keywords = {Post-mortem interval estimation},
keywords = {Bite mark analysis},
title = {Post-Mortem Dental Profile as a Powerful Tool in Animal Forensic Investigations—A Review},
doi = {10.3390/ani12162038},
author = {Viciano, Joan and Tanga, Carmen},
}