Abstract

VILLALOBOS LEON, Kennette  and  FERNANDEZ CHAVES, José Manuel. Fenómeno de diente rosado en asfixia por sumersión. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.2, pp.133-137. ISSN 2215-5287.

This document sets out the case of the corpse of an unknown male in whose autopsy was observed the phenomenon of “ Pink teeth”, according to the legal medical history this subject had been dragged by the current while swimming in and his body was found three days later.

At the time of the first forensic valuation, this was in an advanced state of decomposition without obvious facts of trauma, their teeth were intact and with a important pinkness to the external examination of the body and them was determined that the cause of death was asphyxiation by drowning.

This phenomenon has been linked with a possible legal consecuences, since it has been observed in cases of strangulation, suffocation, and drowning mainly.

Keywords : Dentistry; dental record; pink teeth; drowning.

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