Does bite-mark comparison retain any valid forensic use?

The 2009 National Academy of Sciences report found no scientific basis for concluding that a bite mark can be matched to one person's dentition to the exclusion of all others, and a 2022 NIST draft review reached a similar conclusion. The American Board of Forensic Odontology has accepted this for identification claims and, between 2007 and 2018, progressively restricted its own diplomates to three findings only: exclude, not exclude, or inconclusive. Whether even an exclusion determination meets a reliable scientific standard, or whether the underlying premise that human dentition and bite-mark transfer are sufficiently distinctive and stable has itself been adequately tested, remains contested between the certifying body and the discipline's critics.