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related to forensics and legalities. The referrals
are scarce and reports are not being written
sufficiently. The procedures expounded by this
article were partly adapted from the curriculum
imposed for advanced master in forensic odon-

tology program in the department of forensic
odontology in KU Leuven, Belgium. Thus, the
theoretical and practical weight exhibited in this
study is only represented about a third of total
Figure: 3 – Digital bite mark photograph with intensity of the bite marks module in the ad-
coloured ruler circle on left (yellow) and top (blue)
vanced master program. Ultimately, this article
did not intend to replicate the full module set
width were adjusted to 3.56cm and 6.12cm, forth by the adapted program. It is important to
respectively by multiplying the resize ratio with note however, the procedures described in this
the obtained values. article are accessible through literatures and
paper works from various authors in the related
Fig. 4a exhibited the magic wand overlay added
area within research database.
with marking texts. This overlay was then
flipped for proper orientation of overlay (Fig.
4b). Rectangular marquee of the tooth edges
overlay was transferred onto bite mark image
by using free-transform technique for both up-
per (Fig. 5) and lower dentition (Fig. 6). A spa-
tial polygon performed on bite mark image was
shown in Fig. 7. The same procedure was also
applied on the scanned cast (Fig. 8).

Undergraduate dental programs do not usually
confer forensic knowledge and for that, more
often than not, dentists resort to shunt cases Figure: 5 – Tooth edges overlay on upper dentition
mark

Figure: 4 – (a) “Magic wand” overlay added with Figure: 6 – Tooth edges overlay on lower dentition
marking texts (b) Flipped overlay for proper mark
orientation

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