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3D FORENSIC FACIAL

RECONSTRUCTION

Veritas Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages:138-142
Ms. Riya Ghosh

INTRODUCTION
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Have you ever thought about what comes into effect when a skull is ac-
cidentally recovered from a nearby forest or a mass disaster? We know
definitely what comes into play for the positive identification of the skull
which remains unidentified. But what if traditional and conventional

techniques of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) analysis and dental record

examination fails in that regard. In such scenarios, a methodological

technique is being applied which constitutes a part of Forensic Anthro-
pology and a part of Archaeology. Forensic Facial Reconstruction is a

tool that is helpful in recognising the skull when problems like lack of

information, cost management, and condition of the remains becomes

an obstacle. Forensic Facial Reconstruction is a combination of artistic

skills and scientific techniques. There is a controversy going on among

the reviewers; some say this reconstruction method is just a technique

of approximation that says a single skull can give different facial struc-
tures while the others say that a single skull can give its only single form

of facial construction. But as time passes with the advent of knowledge

and technology scientific forms have evolved to make this method more

powerful through means of 3D (Three-dimensional) techniques i.e.,

what we call now as 3D forensic facial reconstruction.

Fig 1.1 Showing the recovery

of an unidentified skull

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