The word "twin", is obtained from old English: twin", meaning two-fold, double, two by two. Twins have been regarded with fascination and great awe since ancient times.
Identification or pin-pointing a particular individual of the twin is a mammoth task because of tremendous resemblance both physically and genetically.
Edmond Locard was one of the France’ greatest criminologists who first recommended the use of lip print in personal identification and criminalization. The appearances of lip prints, like finger prints, vary from person to person.
The current study was performed to assess the intra-pair differences and variations of the lip-prints in identical twins and to determine whether the theory of uniqueness holds true for identical twins. Present study comprised of 25 pairs of identical twins, two sets of lip-prints were obtained from each pair of twin and labelled appropriately. Each pair of lip-print was then assessed with a good magnifying lens for intra-pair differences using Suzuki's Classification.
It was concluded that discrimination between a pair of identical twins can be made easy if lip-prints are assessed systematically and thoroughly.
Twin, Lip prints, Identification, Suzuki Classification
