Identification of removable prostheses is extremely useful, from quite numerous reasons: humanitary, medical, legal and medico-legal. Identification of removable prostheses and, implicitly, of their carriers, is of utmost importance, eliminating the risk of their losing or substitution among the patients of an asylum or of an emergency hospital. Identification may make use of various techniques, starting from the most rudimentary ones (writing down patient’s name with a marker or its engraving), up to modern methods – introduction of a microchip containing data registered in a national system of data storage. Unfortunately, the modern means are quite expensive and, therefore, less accessible to most practitioners.
Keywords:- identification methods
- marking of prostheses.
- removable prostheses