Ontario dentists see huge spike in police requests for records in 2023
detective and a coroner stand in a lab and look at an X-ray to confirm the identity of the person lying in front of them.Police and coroners really do rely on dental records to identify the dead when they otherwise can’t — maybe if the body was pulled from a fire, removed from a car after a bad crash or scooped out of a river.And there’s been a nearly 400 per cent spike in requests for them in Ontario so far this year.There were 48 requests between Jan. 1 and July 31 in 2023 compared to 10 during the same period in 2022, according to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, which sends the requests to all dentists in the province.That’s already more than 2022 and 2021, which saw 38 and 41, respectively.But Ontario’s Chief Coroner told Global News it’s likely not because more people are dying.Dr.
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