Dr. Denise Christine Murmann, DDS

Denise C. Murmann, DDS, DABFO practices general dentistry in Naperville and River Forest, IL. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Dentistry in 1992, 50 years after her maternal grandfather. She became a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Odontology in 2011. She has been a member of Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) Region V since 1999. In her role with DMORT she has been deployed as a part of the 9/11 World Trade Center Dental Identification Team and to assist after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Murmann has been a member of the Cook County Medical Examiners Disaster Response Team since 2002. She has served as a consultant in forensic odontology for Kane Co, Kendall Co, and Will Co, IL, and is on the NDIR Review Panel. In 2004 she participated in the year-long Fellowship in Forensic Odontology at the Center for Education and Research in Forensics (CERF) through the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The resultant …research project, "A Comparison of Animal Jaws and Bite Mark Patterns," was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) in 2005 and published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in July 2006. Dr. Murmann is a Member and Past President of the American Society of Forensic Odontology (ASFO), a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), and a Member of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD).