Denture marking systems – a systematic review

Aim: To determine the various denture marking systems used for identification of the Subjects for personal identification in post mortem scenarios in the literature. Sources used: An electronic search was conducted for articles written in English or translated into English listed with pubmed, Cochranelibrary, Science Direct, Wiley online library, Google scholar data bases, till January 5th 2017 reporting various ways of denture marking and their uses. Results: The database yielded 20 articles in total out of which 11 articles were selected and the data was extracted in terms of study design, type of denture marker, method of denture marking, advantages and disadvantages of the denture marking. Conclusion: The literature has listed 9 Engraving and 18 embedding methods of denture marking. The superiority of one technique over the other could not be established with the available data, hence more standardized trials needs to be initiated to throw more light on this domain.