Dr Tamanna Parmar describes how teeth helped identify victims of the Air India 171 crash, as dental forensics played a crucial role in the investigation.

Ahmedabad: Forensics experts had identified 231 victims of the AI 171 crash after DNA cross-verification and handed over 210 bodies to their grieving families, Civil Hospital officials said."While 10 families have informed us that they will be reaching the hospital soon to collect the mortal remains for the last rites,

The London-bound Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12, striking a building near B. J. Medical College and Hospital. The aftermath left bodies so severely burned that even fingerprinting became impossible.