“She knows the teeth of every hostage in Gaza.”
So starts a story about Dr. Esi Sharon Sagie, the world expert at identifying the dead by their teeth, according to Barbara Sofer, director of public relations at the Hadassah Offices in Israel.
In her opinion piece in The Jerusalem Post, Sofer reports about Dr. Sharon’s presentation to about 500 women and men during Hadassah’s 2025 National Conference in Florida. Grisly, gruesome and inspiring, according to Sofer, Dr. Sharon’s words and photographs reflected her challenging role of identifying the victims of October 7, 2023, showing such chilling images of refrigeration trucks and body bags. Sofer adds that it was Dr. Sharon who instantly identified archvillain Yahya Sinwar’s body.
“For 40 minutes, the 500 people in the conference hall sat silently. No one left the room, despite the difficult photos,” writes Sofer.
The presentation was impromptu, replacing the scheduled program and audience Q & A with Dr. Sharon and two other Hadassah doctors because of the uniqueness of her story.
Dr. Sharon is the acting director of the postgraduate specialization program in prosthodontics at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, where she teaches dentists how to return the smiles to civilians and soldiers whose faces have been disfigured through disease or trauma.
Read “Facing the grisly truth: How teeth help identify the victims of Oct. 7” in The Jerusalem Post.
