Applying 3D Prints to Reconstructing Postmortem Craniofacial Features Damaged by Devastating Head Injuries

Facial features convey important information about a person ’s identity which is evident a prima vista and easy to assess with minimum technical demands [1,2]. Hence, facial identification, particularly if performed by law-enforcement authorities or family and next-of-kin ranks among the first identification techniques to be used on a dead body in forensic setting [3,4]. However, it is generally acknowledged that postmortem facial identification is extremely dependent on the decedent’s state of preservation.

Source: Legal Medicine - May 21, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Petra Urbanov á, Tomáš Vojtíšek, Jan Frišhons, Ondřej Šandor, Mikoláš Jurda, Jan Krajsa Source Type: research