Nearly a week after police say they found the human remains of two people in a wooded area near Innis Park, the coroner's office says it's keeping its dental forensics consultant on standby.
The coroner identified one victim this week as Wilson Omar Villeda, 17; however, they say only a skeleton was left of the other victim.
According to the county's dental forensics consultant Dr. Daniel Jolly, anthropologists are still coming up with a preliminary profile of that Jane or John Doe. He says it can be a painstaking process. Once the team comes up with a preliminary age, sex and race of the deceased they start combing through missing persons reports.
The county put Dr. Jolly on standby for a dental analysis in this case but he says it could take weeks before it gets done.
He says he can come up with a 100% match within a few hours if he has past dental records to compare to. If he has no one's dental records to compare to, Dr. jolly could end up making his own dental profile for the deceased and send it into the federal dental database. That database includes the dental work of missing people across the country.
He starts with analyzing fillings, which can be unique in itself, and also studies the length of one's teeth, wear of the teeth and sinus cavities.
He says a computer will alert him is a possible match is made; however, he says offices matches can only be made manually with dental work.
Source: http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/identifying-second-set-of-remains-may-come-down-to-dental-forensics
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