The College at Buffalo’s dental faculty gained nationwide consideration with its forensic lab’s work featured on Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries,” which started airing its newest collection on July 31.
A characteristic story written by the college’s employees and printed on August 2 highlights Dr. Mary Bush, DDS, forensic dentist and affiliate professor of restorative dentistry, who took middle stage within the story.
The case started in 2015 when the Pennsylvania State Police delivered a cooler to the forensic lab on the College at Buffalo Faculty of Dental Drugs. The cooler contained an unidentified severed head found by a young person within the woods close to Economic system, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The lab was tasked with figuring out whether or not the pinnacle belonged to a torso present in a mausoleum in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
The investigation was sophisticated by the truth that police solely knew the pinnacle belonged to an older girl interred in 1952.
“After we first noticed the X-rays, I mentioned, ‘There’s no approach that is 1952 dentistry,’” mentioned Bush. “There have been a number of resin composites current, and that technology didn’t exist within the Fifties. Older school members confirmed that it was no sooner than the mid-Nineteen Eighties.”
Bush was interviewed in Could 2023 by Netflix’s iconic thriller documentary present to share her insights for Episode 3, titled “The Severed Head.”
For extra particulars, learn the total characteristic written by Laurie Kaiser, Information Content material Director on the Faculty of Dental Drugs, right here.