The two techniques and procedures involve a comparison of the victim's face and the cleaned skull, particularly the dentition. In the first method, a direct frontal photograph of In the first method, a direct frontal photograph of the victim's smiling face is clipped, copied, and compared to a photograph of the skull taken from the same angle. A side-by-side comparison then is undertaken. The second method depends upon the congruence of significant lines and curves of the face and the victim's dental structure. A photograph of the skull and the face are superimposed and aligned on the same sheet of photographic paper. These methods, used in conjunction with other techniques such as dental radiography and disease abnormalities, provide a basis for verifying a tentative identification. Photographs and 12 references.