Criminal forensic pathologists are the individuals responsible for taking charge at a scene of a crime featuring cadavers that have met an untimely and usually violent end.

             This person is normally responsible for "determining how, when and why of any death which is the result of violence, suspicious or unexplained circumstance or a death with is sudden or unattended, defending and explaining the reasons for making these diagnosis in a courtroom" (Campobasso 2001, pg 133).

             This individual must coordinate all the other professionals also at the scene and ensure that not only do they do their respective jobs but that each professional does not interfere with any of the other professionals. .

             "The forensic pathologist normally has the legal authority to take charge of the dead body at a death scene and his primary functions are the exterior and interior examination of the cadaver by analyzing the extent of ante-mortem injuries and the postmortem changes and the recovery of physical evidence," (Campobasso 2001, pg 132). .

             With this responsibility also comes the need to not only maintain what is happening in the forensic science field but also to learn about all the new technology and methods of extracting evidence from the scene as well. .

             This paper will attempt to address some of those new techniques especially concerning the use of forensic photography to unearth and record evidence in ever more creative ways.

             One new way was studied in 2003 and concerned a way to visualize and analyze bite marks through digital photography and computer screens. This new method is called the photo-grammetric approach. With this new 3-D documentation, the distortion artifacts that can normally be found with standard photography disappears. .

             "Beside the metrical analysis between bite mark and cast, it is possible using our method to utilize the topographical 3-D feature of each individual tooth" (Thali 2003, pg 120).