A study of cheiloscopy & palatoscopy Dr. Kaur Beant*, PG Student, Dr. Trivedi Ashwarya, Associate profesor, Dr. Kumar Raman, Senior Lecturer, Dr. Goyal Navneet, PG Student Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, Guru Nanak Dev Dental College & Research Institute, Sunam *Address For Correspondance: Dr. Beant Kaur, Pg student, Dept of oral medicine and radiology, Gururnanak dev dental college and research institute, Sunam, punjab
Online published on 23 June, 2015. Abstract Identification of living or dead people is often a difficult challenge & time consuming process Human identification is based on scientific principles, mainly involving dental records, fingerprints and DNA comparisons. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to apply lesser known and unusual techniques like cheiloscopy and palatoscopy can lead to important information and help in persons identification. Both cheiloscopy & palatoscopy are unique to an individual, thus their use in forensic identification is fairly justified. Both cheiloscopy & palatoscopy are rather simple techniques not requiring any complex instrument. While cheiloscopy is useful to identify the living & palatoscopy has been succcessfully used in necroidentification. Hereby a study was done on cheiloscopy & palatoscopy –in both male & female subject, intended to analyze the predominant pattern of lip and rugae patterns in males and females and to correlate lip print and rugae patterns that could help forensic odontologists to solve the crime. Top Keywords Cheiloscopy, palatoscopy, persons identification. Top |