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* Brought up on ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' when Mac and Charlie want to fake their deaths. They leave a few of Charlie's teeth in a car. This is not how it works.
* Mentioned in an episode of [[Hustle]]: a deceased criminal, quoth Morgan, "threw himself under a goods train a week after his release... there was so little left, by the time they scraped him off the track, they had to identify him from dental records". (Their goal is to make it ''seem'' like they [[Never Found the Body]], and that he actually [[Faking the Dead|faked his death]] to abscond with the stolen gold.)
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'' had them discover skeletal remains where the teeth had been purposely removed by the killer to prevent positive ID.
* One episode of ''[[The Mentalist]]'' had a body burned in a car identified by dental records. As it turned out, {{spoiler|the dentist providing the actual records was helping the "victim" fake their death and supplied falsified records. The body was an unclaimed cadaver}}.
* In the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', {{spoiler|House fakes his death by swapping his dental records with that of a drug addict whose body has been disfigured beyond recognition by a fire.}}
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== Real Life ==
* The four Ted Bundy victims found at his Taylor Mountain dump site were identified by dental
** One of the pieces of evidence presented at a trial was [[Man Bites Man|bite marks on one of his victims]] which were compared to Bundy's dental records.
** In fact, dental records are one of the three methods of positive identification of human remains (the others being nuclear DNA and fingerprints). Dental records are used to identify thousands of people every year in the US, including murder and accident victims, suicides, and even living persons such as Alzheimer's victims who have strayed far from home.
== Tabletop Games ==
* An interesting subversion of this can be found in most versions of ''[[Dungeons
== Videogames ==
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