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Dental autopsy: are we actually employing it as an investigative tool for human identification in India?

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  1. Amity Institute of Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Sector 125, Uttar Pradesh, 201301, Noida, India

    Ravshish Kaur Kohli & Pooja Puri

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Ms. RKK—information/data collection and draft writing; Dr. PPM—supervision and writing (editing). The authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Kohli, R., Puri, P. Dental autopsy: are we actually employing it as an investigative tool for human identification in India?. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 19, 475–476 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-023-00618-1

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