- Event: Opening of the Bureau of Legal Dentistry
- Date: Monday, April 28, 1997
- Time: 9 a.m.
- Place: Room 146, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering
Laboratory (AMPEL), 2355 East Mall
Parking is available in the Health Sciences Parkade on East Mall.
Enter at Gate 11 off Wesbrook Mall.
B.C. Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh and forensic experts from across
North America will be on hand April 28 to open the Bureau of Legal
Dentistry (BOLD) at the University of British Columbia.
A Faculty of Dentistry project funded by the provincial government,
BOLD is North America’s only facility devoted exclusively to police
work, research and instruction in the use of forensic dentistry.
BOLD projects include pioneering work in the forensic analysis
of DNA taken from teeth and saliva, the development of 3-D computer
models of bite mark evidence and the identification of missing children
using computer graphics to predict and illustrate change in facial
appearance over time.
The results of BOLD research will be shared worldwide with police
agencies and experts in a variety of forensic disciplines. BOLD
will also offer training to police and prosecutors in the new technologies
as well as develop new undergraduate courses and graduate research
training for forensic dental experts.
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