Forensic Dentistry, Second Edition

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be necessary to see the injuries life size. Evaluations and comparisons of the

injuries to the teeth, weapons, or tools that created them are often done in

direct relation to the life-size object, creating the need for photographs that

can be enlarged to life size without loss of the detail necessary for the com-

parison (Figures 11.12 and 11.13).

Figure 11.12 deltoid with maxillary hollow-volume overlay (initial contact).

Figure 11.13 deltoid with maxillary hollow-volume overlay (end position).

Maxillary overlay of hollow-volume exemplars of a suspected biter on the bitemark
at the initial contact position (Figure 11.12) and the end position (Figure 11.13).