This article was interesting but I don't think it'll work very well in the long run. Japaneses researchers developed a new automated system that can find dental matches in seconds. Dental records can be a useful tool for identifying victims of plane crashes, earthquakes and other mass-casualty disasters, but it's a tedious process that can take months. This system makes identifying people quicker when disasters happen and could cut workload up to 95%. Identifying people can take months but this system can make it take less than a week.
I personally think this is a great idea but it won't work. If a disaster happened in a poor country the victims most likely won't have any dental records and in order for this system to work you need to have your dental record in a database and most 3rd world countries airn't as technical as more modern countries. This is a good idea for places such as the us and europe but not places like africa and india.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/28/dental.technology/index.html
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