PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF ANTEMORTEM AND POSTMORTEM RADIOGRAPHS

This report documents three recent cases in Hungary in which personal identification was achieved by comparison of antemortem and postmortem radiographs. These cases demonstrate three examples of radiological i dentification. In Hungary, comparison methods play an important role i n personal identification because of the lack of adequate dental recor ds for most of the population. The authors emphasize that in cases whe re antemortem radio graphs and photographs are available, radiographic comparison is deemed preferable to photographic superimposition, beca use it is more technically exacting and permits the matching of a pote ntially larger number of anatomical, pathological or traumatic feature s.