The police in Essen stop a rolling away car with denture prints. The dental technician who made them available had a few more ideas for worn out teethers.
In Brazil, a plainclothes policeman has just prevented a dentist from being attacked. In one moment he is still lying on the treatment chair with his mouth open, in the next he overpowers two men who, disguised as patients, storm the practice. “Here at the dentist’s mouth,” writes a tabloid about the video. However, the cooperation between the police and dentistry is not entirely new. There have long been thrillers with titles such as “Death drills up”, and real investigators are helped by the dental status in identifying corpses. And if you have ever wondered why there are so many beautiful teeth in the police: They are checked in the selection process.
A particularly nice case of police-dental cooperation has now been reported from Essen-Rüttenscheid: A parked car had become self-employed, the handbrake was not applied. A local dental technician then offered the officers his discarded denture impressions to block the tires. The idea had a bite: plaster of paris doesn’t slide on asphalt. It is not known whose bits braked the car; for reasons of data protection, any identification was made impossible beforehand. The police left the driver with a handwritten letter: she should remove the walkers before driving off. The dental technician, on the other hand, has many ideas about what can be done with plaster of paris, as he explains on the phone. Ashtrays, for example, or Christmas tree decorations. That would certainly make for a bright smile on the Christmas tree at the police station.
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