Asst. Professor, Forensic Medicine, Maheshwara Medical College and Hospital, Pathancheru, District Medak, Telangana
*Author for Correspondence: Dr. E. D. Bharat Kumar, Asst. Professor of, Forensic Medicine, Maheshwara Medical College and Hospital, Pathancheru, District Medak, Telangana-500020, Mobile No: 09652792532 Email ID: dredbharatkumar2010@gmail.com
Online published on 27 July, 2017.
In forensic identification, the mouth allows for a myriad of possibilities. Dental data is vastly used for positive identification of person, but nowadays other oral data such as palatal prints and lip prints are used for the process of identification, the object of which is to identify and register individuals for both civil and criminal purposes.
To check whether there are any peculiar/common lip patterns among males and females and to establish lip prints as a tool for identification.
It's a cross sectional Prospective study.
It was conducted on the children who are studying in fourth standard to Tenth standard in the Government school at Pathancheru. 200 subjects were selected irrespective of their caste, religion, dietary habits & socio-economic status.
Among males, it was found that intersected pattern was most common in compartments 1, 3 and 4, while the least common pattern in lip compartments 1, 2, was Undetermined. On evaluation of the lip prints of the females, compartments 1, 2 exhibited intersected pattern predominantly. However, in compartment 3 and 4, branched pattern was commonest.
Lip prints are useful in personal identification and they differ from person to person even not similar in uniovular twins. Study showed that cellophane tape and lipstick can be easily used to retrieve lip prints. Lip print analysis is a process that can provides both qualitative and quantitative results.
Forensic identification, Cheiloscopy, Lip Prints
