Post-Mortem Dental Profile as a Powerful Tool in Animal Forensic Investigations—A Review Viciano, Joan Tanga, Carmen Veterinary forensics Carcasses Teeth Species identification Sex estimation Age-at-death estimation Body size estimation Geographical origin Post-mortem interval estimation Bite mark analysis 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. 2022-09-26T06:55:11Z 2022-09-26T06:55:11Z 2022-08-10 journal article Viciano, J.; López-Lázaro, S.; Tanga, C. Post-Mortem Dental Profile as a Powerful Tool in Animal Forensic Investigations—A Review. Animals 2022, 12, 2038. [https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12162038] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/76945 10.3390/ani12162038 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI