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Every child’s teeth vary in size, shape, position and relationship in the bite. The uniqueness and difference in a child’s dentition allows it to act as a dental fingerprint. A dental fingerprint is extremely important as children often have fewer or even no dental restorations in their mouths which traditionally have acted as markers for identification.

Toothprints Bite Impressions has been developed by a pediatric dentist as a simple, pleasant way to record the dental characteristics of children to use in identification, and as a means of protecting children. The child simply bites into a wafer to record the size and shape of the teeth, tooth position within the arch and the relationship of the upper and lower jaw. The wafer, or toothprint, then hardens into a reliable long-term record of the child’s unique dentition. Additionally, as the toothprint wafer is stored in a sealed zip lock bag, salvia adhering to the wafer provides a DNA sample as well as a saliva scent for scent tracking dogs.

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