Forensic Odontology.....faux science.
Show a dozen different experts the same
evidence and I guarantee you will not
get a consensus. A lot of people have
been convicted by the bogus BS testimony
of “experts” on bite marks.....and many of
them were later exonerated with DNA evidence.
Odontology is just a parlor trick used by
unscrupulous DA’s trying to pad their conviction
record. It should be banned from American
courtrooms as the farce it really is.
You don’t know what you are talking about.
This has been a scandal in US “Justice” for many years.
It’s less that Forensic Odontology is a faux science than many faux scientists claim to be forensic odontologist. You can’t tell from a bite mark if it was made by a male or female. There are no gender differences in occlusal patterns. If you have a specific suspect, though, you can use bite mark analysis to tell if it was possible that the subject made the bite mark. Really only useful to exonerate suspects. (Only mildly useful at that). For example, if I see a bite mark that includes all four incisors and both canines but you are missing an incisor, you couldn’t have made that bite mark. Now, there will likely be thousands of people in the area who could have made that bite mark — all I can say is that you are not one of them.
None of that invalidates the rest of the field of forensic odontology. It’s really good at identifying remains, for example.