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Editors Note: The ADAA welcomes this inaugural article from the U.S. Air Force, a recent addition to our Federal District family.
For one intense week, three dental assistants assigned to the 81 st Dental Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, experienced forensic dentistry first-hand. As members of a newly established Air Force Medical Forensics Sustainment Support Team, Technical Sergeants Laura Leos and Jill Higgins, and Staff Sergeant Anthony Flagg acquired 39 hours of Medical Examiner Education Training provided by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, a component of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Their training included a combination of didactic instruction and actual human remains identification at the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. The 70,000-square-foot Carson Center is the Department of Defense's largest stateside mortuary.
The Keesler dental assistants served as members of a multidisciplinary...