Abstract
A bitemark is the physical end product of a complex set of events that occur when human or animal teeth are applied to skin or foodstuff. Despite its long history of admission as evidence, there remains a number of significant challenges to its evidential usefulness. Principal among these are the presumed uniqueness of the human dentition, the variable visco-elastic properties of human skin, and the qualitative nature of bitemark analysis. In this chapter, we outline these and other issues and we review the newly described bacterial fingerprinting technique.
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Kieser, J., Tompkins, G., Buckingham, D., Firth, N.A., Swain, M. (2005). Bitemarks. In: Tsokos, M. (eds) Forensic Pathology Reviews. Forensic Pathology Reviews, vol 3. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-910-3_4
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