teeth mold
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content: This upper teeth mold comes from the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research. Dr. Mary Bush and Mr. Peter Bush, who previously focused their research on victim identification using dental records and materials, branched out into the study of variables that can distort the impression of teeth into human skin around 2008.
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content: With their collaborators, the Bushes used teeth molds mounted on a vice grip to make test bites on cadavers in a study that was approved by a Human Subject Review Board to consider how the position of a body might change the skin tension and therefore the bitemark.
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content: These epoxy replicas of an upper dentition are associated with a similarly treated region of skin which had a bitemark inflicted (2023.0110.04). Both were coated with gold for observation with a scanning electron microscope. The results were presented at a 2008 meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
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content: For further information about this line of research, see refer to records for a bite apparatus (2023.0110.01) and teeth molds (2023.0110.02 and 2023.0110.03).
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content: Reference
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content: Bush, P. J., R. G. Miller, R. Dorion, and M. A. Bush. 2008. "The Role of the Skin in Bite Marks, Part III: Microscopic Analysis" Paper presented at Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Gift of the School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo through Mary A. Bush.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0110.05
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content: 2023.0110
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content: 2023.0110.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teeth mold
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 6.35 cm x 3.4925 cm