1Professor, Department of Public health dentistry, The Oxford Dental College, Hospital and Research center, Bangalore, India
2Post Graduate student, Department of Public health dentistry, The Oxford Dental College, Hospital and Research center, Bangalore, India
The last few decades have seen the development of the exaggerated importance of lip prints as another skin impression. Cheiloscopy deals with the examination of system of furrows on the red part of human lips and is an important tool in forensic science. Traditional lip stick produces a print that is easily identifiable. However, lip prints made without lip stick are invisible known as latent lip prints, requiring reagents that are more sensitive than conventional materials to locate and develop the invisible prints. In this paper the authors describe about the unusual techniques of cheiloscopy used in detection and development of latent lip prints.
Cheiloscopy, Latent Print, Detection, Development, Lip prints
