Lip prints: Role in forensic odontology

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Abstract

Identification plays a major role in any crime investigation. The pattern of wrinkles on the lips has individual characteristics like fingerprints. Cheiloscopy is a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lips traces. In the past decades, lip-print studies attracted the attention of many scientists as a new tool for human identification in both civil and criminal issues. The lip crease pattern is on the vermilion border of the lip, which is quite mobile and lip prints may vary in appearance according to the pressure, direction and method used in making the print. It concludes by enlightening the readers with the fact that the possibilities to use the red part of lips to identify a human being are wider than it is commonly thought.

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Possibilities of cheiloscopy

Jerzy Kasprzak (1990)

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Study of the effect of age changes on lip print pattern and its reliability in sex determination.

K. Randhawa, R S Narang, P. C. Arora (2011)

Cheiloscopy, a forensic investigation technique, deals with the study of elevations and depressions which form a characteristic pattern on the external surface of the lips. The objective of the study was to determine the most common lip patterns in North Indian population, to evaluate whether sex determination is possible on the basis of lip prints and to ascertain if there is any co-relation between advancing age and its effect on lip pattern. A total of 600 subjects, 289 males and 311 females were selected and divided into three age groups (group 1: 1-20 years, group 2: 21-40 years, group 3: 40 years and above). Statistical analysis (applying Chi square test) showed very highly significant difference for different lip patterns (p < 0.0001) in males and females in group 2 and no significant difference in group 1 and group 3. The most predominant pattern in the entire study population was Type I (32.33%). Age changes like immaturity of lips in younger age and diminished anatomic details and tonicity in older age can have a considerable effect on the lip pattern, thereby making the correct identification of sex in these age groups debatable.

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The current status of lip prints and their use for identification.

J Ball (2002)

The use of lip prints for human identification was first suggested in 1950 and research was carried out on lip prints in the 1960s and early 1970s, resuming in the last few years. Although lip print identification has been utilized in court in isolated cases more research needs to be conducted in this field with regard to confirmation of uniqueness, and the collection and interpretation of evidence. Lip print identification needs to be acceptable in court as scientifically evidence based.

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Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Pharm Bioallied Sci

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Pharm Bioallied Sci

Journal ID (publisher-id): JPBS

Title: Journal of Pharmacy & Bioallied Sciences

Publisher: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd (India )

ISSN (Print): 0976-4879

ISSN (Electronic): 0975-7406

Publication date (Print): June 2013

Volume: 5

Issue: Suppl 1

Pages: S95-S97

Affiliations

[1]Department of Oral Pathology, Vivekanandha Dental College for Women, Tiruchengodu, Tamil Nadu, India

[1 ]Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Madha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

[2 ]Department of Oral and maxillofacial pathology, SRM Kattankulathur Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Address for correspondence: Dr. Janardhanam Dineshshankar, E-mail: dinesh.rmdch@ 123456gmail.com

Article

Publisher ID: JPBS-5-95

DOI: 10.4103/0975-7406.113305

PMC ID: 3722715

PubMed ID: 23946586

SO-VID: 0414e585-efd2-4df7-9118-b34b08dbce18

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Date received : 02 May 2013

Date revision received : 04 May 2013

Date accepted : 04 May 2013

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