A person’s dental patterns can identify a person as accurately as DNA testing in forensics.
Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) in Spain came to this conclusion after analysing the dental patterns of more than 3,000 people. “There is sufficient dental diversity between people to enable a scientifically-based human identification method to be developed for forensic purposes,” said Stella Martín de las Heras, professor of legal and forensic medicine at the UGR and study leader. Martin de las Heras and her team carried out a statistical analysis of 3,166 full and partial sets of teeth taken from the databases in the National Surveys of Oral Health of 1993, 2000 and 2005. The results were published in Forensic Science International.
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Toddler sets bed afire, burns great-grandma
Washington, June 30: A three-year-old boy with a “history of playing with fire” set alight his great-grandmother’s bed while she was sleeping in a mobile home, firefighters said.
The child woke up in the middle of the night, found a cigarette lighter and set the bed afire, firefighters in Port Orange, 91 km from Orlando, Florida, were quoted as saying by the Australian. His great-grandmother, Phyllis Hall, was taken to hospital with burns on her hands, feet and upper body, but was discharged later.
There were seven people in the mobile home at that time, including Phyllis’ husband Gordon Hall, who was still in hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation, Port Orange firefighters spokeswoman Tanya Saylor said, adding that the boy has a history of playing with fire. —IANS