caa a22 4500 475787501 CHVBK 20180406123703.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s004149900130 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s004149900130 Odontological identification of human remains from mass graves in Croatia [Elektronische Daten] [H. Brkic, D. Strinovic, M. Kubat, V. Petrovecki] This paper reports the results and methods of dental identification of 1000 human remains exhumed from mass graves in Croatia up to July 1998. Personal identification of the victims was performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the School of Medicine in Zagreb. A forensic odontologist participated in the identification process by carrying out the dental identification. A total of 824 victims were positively identified, while 176 victims remained unidentified. Dental identification based on available dental antemortem data was achieved in 25% of the cases. Dental identification based on dental charts was achieved in 35%, on x-rays in 15%, on photographs of teeth in 22%, on interviews in 18%, and on confirmation by odontologists in 10% of the cases. Teeth, in combination with anthropological parameters, age, sex and height, as well as other specific characteristics such as tattoos, personal identification cards, clothes, jewellery and DNA, were helpful for identification of 64% of the victims, but the significance for the identification was not dominant. Only in 11% of the cases was identification achieved by other relevant means and teeth not used at all. Identification procedures in Croatia will continue until another 1700 people who are still missing or kept as prisoners of war since the aggression on Croatia in 1991 are found and/or identified. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Teeth nationallicence Forensic dentistry nationallicence Human rights nationallicence Identification nationallicence War nationallicence Brkic H. Chair of Forensic Odontology, Department of Dental Anthropology, School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb, Gunduliceva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: hrvoje.brkic@zg.tel.hr, Fax: +385-1-4802159 aut Strinovic D. Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia aut Kubat M. Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia aut Petrovecki V. Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s004149900130 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s004149900130 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brkic H. Chair of Forensic Odontology, Department of Dental Anthropology, School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb, Gunduliceva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: hrvoje.brkic@zg.tel.hr, Fax: +385-1-4802159 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Strinovic D. Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kubat M. Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Petrovecki V. Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer