“He was only able to be identified by his dental records.” /u/InterestingCabinet41 No such thing as stupid questions

How would this work? Do they send a description to every dentist in the area? Are our dental records in a common database? Or maybe this only works when you have a very small number of suspects/victims and you only need to query a handful of dentists?

How would this work? Do they send a description to every dentist in the area? Are our dental records in a common database? Or maybe this only works when you have a very small number of suspects/victims and you only need to query a handful of dentists?