European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

STUDY OF LIP PRINTS: A FORENSIC STUDY AT PATNA, BIHAR

Dr. Supriya Singh, Dr. Rohit Singh, Dr. Jazib Nazeer*, Dr. Altaf Ashraf and Dr. Md Asad Iqubal

ABSTRACT

The mouth has been identified as the organ system “where it all begins.” Forensic odontology, or forensic dentistry, was defined by Keiser- Neilson in 1970 as “a branch of forensic medicine which in the interest of justice deals with the proper handling and examination of dental evidence and with the proper evaluation and presentation of the dental findings.”[1] The traditional methods of personal identification include anthropometry, finger prints, sex determination, estimation of age, measurement of height, identification of a specific individual, and differentiation by blood groups.[2] The study of lip prints is called “cheiloscopy”. The importance of cheiloscopy is linked to the fact that lip prints are unique to one person, except in monozygotic twins. Like fingerprints and palatal rugae, lip prints are permanent and unchangeable.[1] It is possible to identify lip patterns as early as sixth week of intrauterine life. From that moment, lip groove patterns rarely change, resisting many infections, such as herpetic lesions. Lip print identification is acceptable within forensic sciences similar to finger prints as a means of personal identification.[3]

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