The Tsunami Disaster in the Kingdom of Thailand 2004

The tsunami disaster victims were recovered during the clear-up operationsusing heavy construction- and earth-moving-machinery, all sorts of vehicles,working elephants, search and recovery divers and additional action forcesby water, by land and by air. Within the "Mobile Forensic Medicine Center",the international DVI teams worked in shifts and performed the post mortemexamination of each of the tsunami victims. The DVI teams comprised policeofficers, photographers, finger print experts, legal medicine physicians,forensic odontologists and DNA experts. Schlagwörter: tsunami, mass disaster, identification, dental, DVI, odontostomatology