Forensic Dentistry - EA0909018

• Title: Forenzní zubní lékařství
• Guaranteed by: Ústav soudního lékařství (14-120)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen
• Actual: from 2018 to 2019
• Semester: winter
• Points: 1
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:7/7, C+Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
• Guarantor: MUDr. et MUDr. Miroslav Dvořák; MUDr. Jitka Pažinová
• Teacher(s): MUDr. et MUDr. Miroslav Dvořák; MUDr. Jitka Pažinová
• Co-requisite : EA0905471, EA0905500, EA0908470
• Is co-requisite for: EA0910361, EA0910477, EA0910485, EA0910481, EA0910483, EA0910479

Annotation

English

Last update: MUDr. et MUDr. Miroslav Dvořák (14.11.2017)

"Forensic dentistry is the study and practice of aspects of dentistry that are relevant to legal problems." (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009)
The work of a forensic dentist (odontologist) includes:
- Identification of unknown human remains through dental records.
- Assisting at the scene of a mass disaster.
- Analysis of bite marks found on victims of attack.
- Age estimations of both living and deceased persons.
Principles of Forensic Pathology are an indispensable basis of Clinical Forensic Medicine as well as Forensic Dentistry.

Czech

Last update: Jaroslava Hanzlová (10.10.2017)

"Forensic dentistry is the study and practice of aspects of dentistry that are relevant to legal problems." (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009)
The work of a forensic dentist (odontologist) includes:
- Identification of unknown human remains through dental records.
- Assisting at the scene of a mass disaster.
- Analysis of bite marks found on victims of attack.
- Age estimations of both living and deceased persons.
Principles of Forensic Pathology are an indispensable basis of Clinical Forensic Medicine as well as Forensic Dentistry.

Literature

Last update: MUDr. et MUDr. Miroslav Dvořák (14.11.2017)

Textbook:

Simpson´s Forensic Medicine, 12 th Edition, 2003,

                                                  13 th Edition, 2011

 
 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Jaroslava Hanzlová (11.10.2022)

 

Forensic Dentistry

(Dentistry – Year 5; Winter semester of the academic year 2021/2022)

Examination / credit - between 6th and 10th December 2021; registration possible on SIS at

the end of November. The date of opening the registration will be announced.
The examination is oral, there is no test. You will be assigned two questions (see List of
examination questions below) and get time to prepare the answers. During the examination,
you will also be awarded the credit.

Examination questions   

1. The appearance of the body after death
2. Identification of the dead, Forensic dental identification
3. Blunt-force injury
4. Sharp-force injury
5. Gunshot injury
6. Child physical abuse
7. Shaken baby syndrom, Sudden infant death syndrome
8. Bite injury
9. Electrical injury
10. Injury caused by heat and cold
11. Carbon monoxide poisoning
12. Asphyxia – Hanging
13. Asphyxia – Ligature strangulation, Manual strangulation
14. Drowning
15. Road traffic injury
16. Head injury – brain injury, intracranial haemorrhage (topic that has to be prepared
from the assigned textbook)

Study materials for the examination
- Lectures / seminars
- Textbook Simpson´s Forensic Medicine, edition 2011 - only chapters dealing
with the topics of lectures and exam questions.

 

Syllabus

Last update: Jaroslava Hanzlová (11.10.2022)

 

Forensic Dentistry
(Dentistry – Year 5; Winter semester of the academic year 2021/2022)
Department of Forensic Pathology, Lidická Street 8 – seminary room on the 1st floor
Time: Tuesdays, every other week from 4:40 pm to 6:20 pm
Lecturers: MUDr. et MUDr. Miroslav Dvořák – Department of Forensic Pathology
MUDr. Jan Netolický, Ph.D. – Department of Dentistry
Contact with the lecturer/examiner in written form only - email address:
[e-mail]

Textbook (at the faculty library or online): Simpson´s Forensic Medicine, 13th edition, 2011
https://drive.uqu.edu.sa/_/rajastania/files/Forensic/simpson-forensic-medicine.pdf
Lectures / Seminars:
(1) 5th October 2021 – online
Forensic medicine
The appearance of the body after death
Identification of the dead
(2) 19th October - online
Blunt force injury, Sharp force injury
Gunshot injury
(3) seminary at the Department of Dentistry
(the exact day and time will be announced by MUDr. Netolický)
Forensic dental identification:
Identification of persons according to the teeth; Age estimation according to the teeth
(4 / 5) 16th November - double seminary
first part at the Department of Forensic Pathology, Lidická 8 – seminary room
Child physical abuse, Shaken baby syndrome, Bite injury
second part online
SIDS (Sudden infant death syndrome)
Electrical injury
Injury caused by heat and cold
Carbon monoxide poisoning
(6 / 7) 30th November – double seminary – online
Asphyxia – Hanging, Ligature strangulation, Manual strangulation
Drowning; Road traffic injury

Forensic Dentistry - Examination / Credit
(Dentistry – Year 5; Winter semester of the academic year 2021/2022)
Examination / credit - between 6th and 10th December 2021; registration possible on SIS at
the end of November. The date of opening the registration will be announced.
The examination is oral, there is no test. You will be assigned two questions (see List of
examination questions below) and get time to prepare the answers. During the examination,
you will also be awarded the credit.

Examination questions
1. The appearance of the body after death
2. Identification of the dead, Forensic dental identification
3. Blunt-force injury
4. Sharp-force injury
5. Gunshot injury
6. Child physical abuse
7. Shaken baby syndrom, Sudden infant death syndrome
8. Bite injury
9. Electrical injury
10. Injury caused by heat and cold
11. Carbon monoxide poisoning
12. Asphyxia – Hanging
13. Asphyxia – Ligature strangulation, Manual strangulation
14. Drowning
15. Road traffic injury
16. Head injury – brain injury, intracranial haemorrhage (topic that has to be prepared
from the assigned textbook)
Study materials for the examination
- Lectures / seminars
- Textbook Simpson´s Forensic Medicine, edition 2011 - only chapters dealing
with the topics of lectures and exam questions.