1Senior Resident, JIPMER
2Additional Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Science, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
3Professor & HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine, SBKS Medical Institute & Research Centre, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
4Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, SBKS Medical Institute & Research Centre, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Online published on 7 February, 2017.
Identification of an individual plays an important role in both civil and criminal investigations. Fingerprinting is widely accepted and practiced method of identification throughout the world because of its uniqueness. Similarly researches done previous shows that lip print pattern is also unique and is helpful in identification.
To correlate fingerprint with lip print pattern and also to determine the predominant fingerprint and lip print pattern in males and females, in Gujarati population.
Cross-sectional survey was conducted in a teaching hospital Vadodara, Gujarat, India. A total of 200 subjects (100 males and 100 females), between 18–24 years of age, were the study subjects. Fingerprint and lip impressions of all the subjects were recorded, and the results were analyzed based on Henry system for fingerprints and Suzuki & Tsuchihashi classification for lip prints.
There exists a correlation between the fingerprint and the lip print pattern in both males and females (p <0.001), which was highly significant sex-wise.
In the male (63.9%) and female (66.6%) loop fingerprint pattern was the predominant type. In the case of lip print pattern in male Type III (42%) and female Type I (37%) was the most predominant type.
There is a correlation between fingerprint and lip print patterns in both males and females. The study also revealed that finger and lip prints are unique to each and can be used as an identification tool in civil and criminal investigation.
dactyloscopy, cheiloscopy, fingerprint, lip print, correlation, identification
