1Assistant Professor, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry.
2Assistant professor, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry
3Professor & Head, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Muthamizh Selvan: Assistant Professor, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry
Online published on 5 August, 2022.
In day to day forensic practice, various biological samples are used as an identification tool such as bone, hair, tooth, fingerprints, foot prints, ear prints etc. Similarly lip prints are utilised as a major identification tool as it can be found at crime scene over glass windows, doors, cutlery and crockery, cigarette butt etc. Hence it is important to study various patterns of lip prints and its medicolegal significance in identification.
To study the pattern of lip prints as an identification tool and to correlate lip prints with ABO blood groups.
The study was conducted on 100 MBBS students using lip stick and it is lifted using a cellophane tape and pasted on plain A4 paper. Different patterns of lip prints are studied, further it is analysed using Tsuchihashi classification1 and correlated with ABO grouping using SPSS software
The study revealed that type I lip print to be the most predominant among all other types followed by type IV.
