Forensic Odontology Conference Offers Hands-On Training for Casualty Identification in Death Investigations
Knoxville, Tenn. — All That Remains, a Forensic Odontology National Conference, will give dental professionals unique exposure to current forensic dentistry methods and provide hands-on training for individual and mass-disaster casualty identification in death investigations.
Beginning July 30, 2017, this week-long conference will be presented by the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine’s (UTGSM) Department of General Dentistry Division of Forensic Odontology and Human Identification.
“During the course, dental professionals will have training in real-life settings,” says Murray Marks, PhD, director of the Forensic Dentistry Fellowship and associate professor of general dentistry at the UTGSM. “Attendees will visit a variety of settings including a courtroom, forensic anthropology laboratory, hospital laboratory, and a Regional Forensic Center Office.”
According to Marks, the course also includes the opportunity to perform an oral autopsy, including a jaw resection; witness a forensic autopsy; visit and archaeologically-excavate a clandestine grave; and learn to use entomological evidence for time-since-death estimation.
All That Remains will be led by forefront forensics faculty including officers in the American Board of Forensic Odontology national organization as well as Dr. Bill Bass, a renowned forensic anthropologist who founded the original “Body Farm” in Knoxville.
This 42.5 hours dental credit hour course is a stepping stone to challenge the American Board Forensic Odontology credentialing examination at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting. These hours are accepted by the Tennessee Board of Dentistry for re-licensure credit. Participants licensed outside of Tennessee should check with their licensing board.
“We hope that dentists from all sectors will consider joining us for this unique, hands-on training that will prepare them to use this specialized training to aid first responders following mass disasters such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and more recently, the Smoky Mountain fires,” says Marks.
For a full course overview and to register, visit gsm.utmck.edu/cme/AllThatRemains2017.
