References
Development of a Biometric Infant Identification Tool
A New Safeguard Through Innovation (click to view PDF)
Support for the Use of Thermoplastic Bite Impressions to Aid in the Identification of Missing and Unknown Children. Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society, Summer 2005.
The origins of the infant Identifier were started with Toothprints® bite impressions technique
Toothprints: A Comprehensive Recovery, Identification, Forensic, and Prosecution Tool. Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society, Summer 2005.
Uses and validity of Toothprints® in dentistry are explained
Xie D. Evaluation of Toothprints®: Non-published test report. Kerr Dental 6/11/2004.
The accuracy of the thermoplastic material used to imbed the mothers fingerprint is more accurate than the impression material a dentist uses to take models of patients teeth
Lee HC, Ladd C, Scherczinger CA, Bourke MT. Forensic Application of DNA typing, part2; collection and preservation of DNA evidence. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1998; 19(1): 8-10.
Even small amounts of DNA can yield successful results from PCR analysis
Ellis MA, Fengyu S, Parks, ET, Eckert GJ, Dean JA, Windsor LJ. An evaluation of DNA yield, DNA quality and bite registration from a dental impression JADA 13 (138): 1234-1240.
DNA captured from a thermoplastic wafer was sufficient for identification using the PCR method
Shepard KS. Erickson T. Fromm H. Limitations of footprinting as a means of identification. Pediatrics. 37(1):107-8, 1966 Jan.
Technique was found to be only 20% reliable. Can be safely stated that this procedure, which is standard at so many hospitals, is without value.
Gray, J., Suresh, G., Ursprung, R, Edwards, W., Nickerson, J. Shiono, P., et al. (2006). Patient misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit: Quantification of risk. Pediatrics, 117, 43–47.
A recent study of misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) over a 1-year period found "not a single day was free of risk for patient misidentification"
Craig M, Dunn L et al. Testing the Viability of Using the Infant Identifier as Scent Material for Trailing Kidnapped Infants; non-published report Public Safety Dogs, Inc. North Carolina. March 17, 2008.
Public Safety Dogs, Inc is a non profit foundation that trains scent discriminating tracking dogs for law enforcement. http://www.publicsafetydogs.com/
Vacca JR. Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems , p 570. Butterworth-Heinemann Publishers 2007.
"Biometrics are a natural solution for confirming and linking the identity of mothers and their children...there has been public support in areas where (biometrics) has been implemented, as people perceive the benefits….it is a tool in the technology toolbox"
DiPasquale Davis J, Moran MK, Horger EO Dajani AN. Pregnancy anxieties and natural recognition in baby-switching. British Journal of Nursing, Vol. 10(11), 08 Jun 2001, pp 718 – 726.
http://www.internurse.com/cgi-bin/go.pl/library/article.cgi?uid=10432;article=BJN_10_11_718_726
Recent media reports in the USA of baby-switching at birth have caused anxiety for a number of maternity patients.
Identification Techniques for Preventing Infant Mix-Ups
http://www.dnacenter.com/science-technology/articles/infant-mix-up.html
Article provides short summary and gold standard of maternal DNA testing
Development of a Biometric Infant Identification Tool
A New Safeguard Through Innovation (click to view PDF)
Support for the Use of Thermoplastic Bite Impressions to Aid in the Identification of Missing and Unknown Children. Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society, Summer 2005.
The origins of the infant Identifier were started with Toothprints® bite impressions technique
Toothprints: A Comprehensive Recovery, Identification, Forensic, and Prosecution Tool. Journal of the Massachusetts Dental Society, Summer 2005.
Uses and validity of Toothprints® in dentistry are explained
Xie D. Evaluation of Toothprints®: Non-published test report. Kerr Dental 6/11/2004.
The accuracy of the thermoplastic material used to imbed the mothers fingerprint is more accurate than the impression material a dentist uses to take models of patients teeth
Lee HC, Ladd C, Scherczinger CA, Bourke MT. Forensic Application of DNA typing, part2; collection and preservation of DNA evidence. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1998; 19(1): 8-10.
Even small amounts of DNA can yield successful results from PCR analysis
Ellis MA, Fengyu S, Parks, ET, Eckert GJ, Dean JA, Windsor LJ. An evaluation of DNA yield, DNA quality and bite registration from a dental impression JADA 13 (138): 1234-1240.
DNA captured from a thermoplastic wafer was sufficient for identification using the PCR method
Shepard KS. Erickson T. Fromm H. Limitations of footprinting as a means of identification. Pediatrics. 37(1):107-8, 1966 Jan.
Technique was found to be only 20% reliable. Can be safely stated that this procedure, which is standard at so many hospitals, is without value.
Gray, J., Suresh, G., Ursprung, R, Edwards, W., Nickerson, J. Shiono, P., et al. (2006). Patient misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit: Quantification of risk. Pediatrics, 117, 43–47.
A recent study of misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) over a 1-year period found "not a single day was free of risk for patient misidentification"
Craig M, Dunn L et al. Testing the Viability of Using the Infant Identifier as Scent Material for Trailing Kidnapped Infants; non-published report Public Safety Dogs, Inc. North Carolina. March 17, 2008.
Public Safety Dogs, Inc is a non profit foundation that trains scent discriminating tracking dogs for law enforcement. http://www.publicsafetydogs.com/
Vacca JR. Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems , p 570. Butterworth-Heinemann Publishers 2007.
"Biometrics are a natural solution for confirming and linking the identity of mothers and their children...there has been public support in areas where (biometrics) has been implemented, as people perceive the benefits….it is a tool in the technology toolbox"
DiPasquale Davis J, Moran MK, Horger EO Dajani AN. Pregnancy anxieties and natural recognition in baby-switching. British Journal of Nursing, Vol. 10(11), 08 Jun 2001, pp 718 – 726.
http://www.internurse.com/cgi-bin/go.pl/library/article.cgi?uid=10432;article=BJN_10_11_718_726
Recent media reports in the USA of baby-switching at birth have caused anxiety for a number of maternity patients.
Identification Techniques for Preventing Infant Mix-Ups
http://www.dnacenter.com/science-technology/articles/infant-mix-up.html
Article provides short summary and gold standard of maternal DNA testing