Assessment of the usefulness of morphometric and volumetric analysis of mastoid process for gender determination in forensic odontology: A retrospective cone beam computed tomographic study

• Main Authors: Binindita Mondal (Author), M R Vaishali (Author), Maria P David (Author), G Roopashri (Author), Vinod Kumar (Author), Indira A Ponnuswamy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Personal identification is crucial in natural mass disasters and in man-made disasters when the body is highly mutilated and fragmented. The mastoid process of the skull is important in this regard for sex determination, since it is one of the most protected region and is resistant to da...