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One tooth, six clues: How a single tooth can help in identifying deceased persons

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One tooth, six clues: How a single tooth can help in identifying deceased persons
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A single tooth can contain valuable clues to a person's identity, even when remains are severely decomposed or reduced to bones, according to a study by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo. By applying multiple forensic methods to different tissues within a single tooth, the researchers obtained six types of information about the deceased. This integrated approach could provide complementary evidence to help identify unknown human remains when conventional methods are difficult to appl

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