dental records

noun

: the information about a person's teeth that a dentist has

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The divers were able to recover Schepers’ vehicle while keeping the structure intact, allowing investigators to use dental records to identify her skeletal remains. Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025 Using dental records, deputies said the remains were identified as Kay Medin in 1988. Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025 Officials used dental records to determine the remains belonged to 22-year-old Xavier Menefee, the medical examiner’s office said. Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2025 Waldinger, the fourth steward of the Harvard study, was moved by the consistency of his own research and the work that preceded him — the thousands of questionnaires, saliva samples, genetic analyses, cholesterol reports, dental records, I.Q. tests, wide-ranging interviews and brain scans. Kirsten Potter Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for dental records

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“Dental records.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dental%20records. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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