Dental

Dental remains are extremely important to the identification process. An individual’s dental records are often the best way to identify remains as they have unique individual characteristics and may contain surviving mtDNA. If your project chooses to use Dental analysis as part of your identification process then you have come to the right place. Ideally, the project forensic odontologists will have antemortem (before death) X-rays to use for comparison, but even handwritten charts and treatment notes can be critical to the research and identification process. Here you will learn more about the Dental module in CoRA.

• Dental Navigation
• Create New Dental Specimen
• New tooth
• Multiple via Dentition Bone Group
• Multiple via Dental Chart

Navigation

Navigate to the Dental section by opening the navigation bar and selecting the Dental dropdown. For Report Dashboard - please see the Reports documentation.

Create Dental Specimen

Users can create a new dental specimen in multiple ways. For example you can create a single tooth or multiple dental specimens belonging to a dentition bone group such as Maxillary dentition.

New Tooth

User can create a New Tooth by navigate to Left Sidebar Menu -> Dental-> New Tooth. User will be taken to the new dental screen as shown below.

You are now in the create page for the New tooth of the CoRA application. User can create following the below steps.

The screen fields are shown below. Fields in bold are required.

Attributes	Data Type	Size	Validation Rule	Required/Optional
Accession	String	32 chars	Can only contain letters, numbers, dash and space and should have min 3 chars	Required
Provenance1	String	32 chars	Can only contain letters, numbers, dash and space	Optional
Provenance2	String	32 chars	Can only contain letters, numbers, dash and space	Optional
Designator	Alphanumeric	32 chars	Can only contain letters and numbers	Required
Tooth	Id	id	valid bones via dropdown	Required
Completeness	String	16 chars	valid completeness via dropdown (Complete, Incomplete)	Required

Multiple via Dentition Bone Group

To create a multiple specimens via dentition bone group - navigate to the Left Sidebar Menu -> dental -> New via Dentition Bone Group. You will be taken to the new specimens via bone group screen. Here you can create multiple dental specimens that belong to the same dentition bone group.

You are now in the create page for the new dental via dentition bne group of the CoRA application. User can create following the below steps.

The fields to create a new bone group are:

• Bone Group
  • Grouping
  • Bone group
  • Side (defaulted to 'Left')
  • Completeness (defaulted to 'Complete')
• Accession
  • Accession Number
  • Provenance 1
  • Provenance 2
  • Designator
• Pathology
  • Traumas
  • Pathologies
  • Taphonomies

The bolded fields are required.

Attributes	Data Type	Size	Validation Rule	Required/Optional
Bone Group	String	64 chars	can only contain letters	Required
Bone Group Id	String	64 chars	valid UUID, auto generated	Required
Side	String	8 chars	valid sides via dropdown (Left, Right, Middle, Unsided)	Required
Completeness	String	16 chars	valid completeness via dropdown (Complete, Incomplete)	Required
Accession	String	32 chars	can only contain letters, numbers, dash and space and should have min 3 chars	Required
Provenance1	String	32 chars	can only contain letters, numbers, dash and space	Optional
Provenance2	String	32 chars	can only contain letters, numbers, dash and space	Optional
Starting Designator	Alphanumeric	32 chars	can only contain letters and numbers	Required

Multiple via Dental Chart

To create a multiple specimens via Dental Chart - navigate to the Left Sidebar Menu -> dental -> New via Dental Chart. You will be taken to the create dental specimen screen.

You are now in the create page for the new dental via dental chart of the CoRA application. User can create following the below steps.

The fields to create a new bone group are:

• Accession Number
• Provenance 1
• Provenance 2
• Designator
• Bone group
• Completeness (defaulted to 'Complete')
• Teeth
• Numbering System (defaulted to 'Universal')
• Tooth Selection (defaulted to 'Whole Tooth')
• Dental Code (defaulted to 'Missing Postmortem')

Your new dental chart will now be saved.

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Last update: 2024-05-05
Created: 2023-12-18