jsmithe

I'm writing a mystery. A partial skull is recovered. Can the victim be
indentified by his teeth and jaw showing genetic markers particuler to a
genetic line (an inbred social group) such as smaller, larger, or mishapen
teeth orcertain abnormalities in the bone of the jaw, etc? Please reply to
the group or admin@funbureau.com.

fmn

I can't give an absolute scientific answer, but there are definate ethnic
traits such as native american, african american, asian. Of course since
the world have cross bred so much, the recessive traits come through for no
exact correlation.
I have noticed that there is also a tendency for a person to totally inherit
teeth shape from one of the parents but no hybrid of both ever.
There are also tendencies to have or not have wisdom teeth. English people
tend to have crowded teeth more often. Eskimos often have 4th molars (extra
set of wisdom teeth). People of african descent and non spain latin
americans tend to have what is called bimaxillary protrusion meaning both
jaws are larger and stick out more forward making a convex fuller smile.
Asians tend to have a small, flat maxilla or upper jaw and mid face and a
more prominant lower jaw. Native americans have a tell tale shovel shaped
incisor. (meaning the tongue side of the teeth in the front have a deep
hollow compared the average.
There are patterns that I see a lot, I read a lot in research. For
instance, Scandinavians tend to have long vertical growing faces and eastern
europeans tend to have a short square face with strong muscles.
Give me a specific scenario and maybe I can help.
fmn dds

jsmithe

The shape of the teeth and the number of molars would be of a genetically
inbred Caucasian family.