Bone and Tooth: Substrates for Determining Drowning: A New Diagnostic Procedure in Forensic Medicine Practice?

•Optimization of the “Diatom Test” method could potentially lead to its future use as a routine method within experimental settings.•This experimental study is a starting point that guides forenscic medicine pracitioners towards the optimization of tests and sampling in cases of unexplained etiology, where preserved soft tissue structures is not available. In these cases, teeth and bones serve as accessible materials for diagnosing COD, alongside standardized nonspecific findings in the absence of organs for micro- and macroanalysis.•From the forensic field in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this was just the introduction of a method for determination of drowning by the presence of diatoms in the tooth and bone, considering the peripheral vascularization of the tooth and bone in cases when we haven't any soft tissue.