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Forensic Odontologist resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what forensic odontologists actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most forensic odontologists should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Registered dentist with a clinical base in general practice and a developing forensic odontology caseload across coronial identification cases and disaster victim identification exercises. I combine dental charting and radiographic comparison with the discipline of writing evidence that stands up in a coroner's court. I am looking to deepen my DVI deployment experience within a team that takes both the science and the family impact seriously.
Key skills
- Ante-mortem and post-mortem dental record comparison
- Dental charting and radiographic interpretation
- Disaster victim identification (DVI) procedures and INTERPOL guidelines
- Expert report writing and coronial evidence
- Dental age estimation and oral autopsy
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Laboratory analysis and specimen handling
- Regulatory compliance and chain of custody
- Training delivery for dental, police and emergency personnel
- WinID3
- DVI System International
- Planmeca Romexis
- Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Excel
- Attention to detail
- Written communication and presenting
Experience: example bullet points
- Charted and compared ante-mortem and post-mortem dental records and radiographs across coronial identification cases, producing documentation that withstood review by pathologists and the coroner's office.
- Reconciled dental records for a multi-agency disaster victim identification exercise using WinID3 and DVI System International, tracking each case through to sign-off.
- Wrote the ante-mortem record request template used by police liaison officers in a state DVI exercise, which reduced the number of incomplete records returned from the first intake.
- Prepared expert reports and gave evidence at coronial inquests on dental identification methodology and age estimation.
- Trained dental, police and ambulance personnel in dental identification basics, evidence handling and ante-mortem record collection, running tabletop sessions that fed into live exercise scenarios.
- Captured and annotated dental radiographs in Planmeca Romexis for comparison and court presentation, and maintained case records in line with chain of custody requirements.
- Maintained a clinical dentistry load alongside forensic casework, keeping AHPRA registration and clinical skills current for court and deployment purposes.
Education
Bachelor of Dental Surgery or Doctor of Dental Medicine, registration with the Dental Board of Australia through AHPRA, then postgraduate study in forensic odontology such as a graduate certificate, graduate diploma or master's, plus formal disaster victim identification training.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Forensic odontology
- AHPRA
- Dental Board of Australia
- Disaster victim identification
- DVI
- INTERPOL DVI guidelines
- Ante-mortem dental records
- Post-mortem dental examination
- Dental charting
- Expert witness
- Coronial inquest
- Expert report
- Chain of custody
- WinID3
- DVI System International
- Planmeca Romexis
- Australian Society of Forensic Odontology
- Dental age estimation
- Oral autopsy
- Radiograph comparison
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.