International Journal of Arts and Social Science www.ijassjournal.com ISSN: 2581-7922, Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2022 Zainal Abidin Page 225 Dental Record as A Tool of Identification and Legal Evidence In Court Zainal Abidin 1 , Anggraeni Endah Kusumaningrum 2 1 (Masters Program in Law, 17 Agustus University, Semarang, Indonesia) 2 (Masters Program in Law, 17 AgustusUniversity, Semarang, Indonesia) ABSTRACT: Everyone has an identity to distinguish them from others. This identity has a legal aspect. The most important, simple and immediate anticipation of these things is to fix or make a Dental Medical Record in this case a good, complete, uniform, and easy to understand odontogram, both by the medical community, paramedics, law enforcers, as well as ordinary people, using universally applicable standards (national and international). This study uses a normative juridical approach, with qualitative descriptive analysis. Odontogram medical records are indispensable as an identification tool following the Law on Medical Practices of 2004 and the Minister of Health Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia 269/Menkes/Per/2008. In the implementation of medical practice, every doctor and dentist must refer to the applicable standards, guidelines and procedures so that the public gets professional and safe medical services and can avoid legal problems. As a medical record, the odontogram can be used as evidence in court because it is categorized as evidence for expert testimony as stated in the Minister of Health Regulation No. 269/2008 article 13 states that medical records have benefits, namely evidence in the law enforcement process, medical and dental disciplines in the enforcement of medical ethics and dental ethics. KEYWORDS - Court,Dental Records, Identification. I. INTRODUCTION One of the main elements in an excellent health care system is the availability of medical services by doctors and dentists whose quality is maintained following the mandate of Law Number 29 of 2004 concerning Medical Practice. In the implementation of medical practice, every doctor and dentist must refer to the applicable standards, guidelines and procedures so that the public receives professional and safe medical services. As one of the regulatory functions in the Medical Practice Act of 2004, what is meant is the regulation of medical records, namely Article 46 and Article 47. Health workers as one of the main components of providing health services to the community have a very important role because it is directly related to service quality(Kholili, 2011) The main problem and obstacle in the implementation of medical records are that doctors and dentists are not fully aware of the benefits and uses of medical records, both in health care facilities and in individual practices, as a result, medical records are made incomplete, unclear and not timely. Currently, there are medical record guidelines issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Health, but these guidelines only regulate hospital medical records. Therefore, it is necessary to reference medical records for the implementation of medical practice related to legal aspects that apply to public, private, special hospitals, health centres, individuals and other health services. With the medical record, the role of the dentist is quite important in making data in the form of an odontogram as an identification process. Therefore, identification of a person who is personal data is very necessary, especially the teeth that are tightly attached to the jawbone, resistant to the decay process, resistant to heat up to 900 degrees Celsius, resistant to acid, resistant to abrasion and attrition, high individualistic value, Identification through Dentistry is the process of determining the unique characteristics of an individual's teeth by comparing post-mortem data with pre-death data.