Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 2

Inter Observer Variation in Analysis of Palatal Rugae Pattern

  • Author:
  • Kishore K Sham1, B Manjunatha2, H V Chandrakant3, Kanchana R Ghodke4, GN Pramod Kumar5
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 106 to 108

1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, KVG Medical College, Sullia, Karnataka, India

2Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, JSS Medical College, JSS University, SS Nagar, Mysore, Karnataka, India

3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, JSS Medical College, JSS University, SS Nagar, Mysore, Karnataka, India

4Post Graduate Student, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, JSS Medical College, JSS University, SS Nagar, Mysore, Karnataka, India

5Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, JSS Medical College, JSS University, SS Nagar, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Online published on 19 August, 2014.

Abstract

In comparative methods of identification, inter-observer variations always pose a predicament. Palatal rugoscopy, being a comparative mode of identification, is not an exception for such predicament. Each and every palatal print is unique and has great potential in the field of identification of living or dead. In the present study 25 palatal casts were analyzed by two independent observers one each from Medical and Dental fraternity. Statistical evaluation was done for inter observer variation in studying various shapes and directions.

Keywords

Palatal Rugoscopy, Comparative Identification, Inter Observer Variation