Massive disaster management in Argentina: personal experience.

In Argentina there have been far more events involving multiple victims. Forensic dentistry was able to contribute with a high incidence in the identification of victims of mass disasters such. The purpose of this paper is to present how they were carried out the work of identification from dental methodology and the problems that the team had to face. Each of these events has demanded different work methodologies given the conditions in which showed the bodies and threw different results depending mortem pre existing documentation. The most known and their statistics: A.M.I.A., Buenos Aires, July 1994. 84 fatalities product of a bomb attack, was achieved by 47% of dental identification. Military Helicopter Crash Argentine polo field, Buenos Aires, October 8, 1996, 10 fatalities charred, achieving 100% in dental identification. LAPA, Buenos Aires, plane crash, off plan fails and the ship collides with a sparkling mound causing it to catch fire quickly. 67 fatalities charred 32% of dental identification, with some cases of adulteration identification crosslinking in dental Medical Records. SOL Crash, May 18, 2011, ship icing that falls crashing in the steppe of the province of Rio Black, 22 fatalities with great dismembered bodies. 1% dental identification by lack of data on dental history. They have produced so far 30 events involving multiple victims. Forensic dentistry was able to contribute with a high incidence in the identification of victims. The purpose of this paper is to present how carried out identification work from dental methodology and problems team faced.