Lip prints: An Overview in Forensic Dentistry

Reddy, L. Vamsi Krishna

doi:10.1177/2229411220110104

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“…Consequently, in criminalistics areas of study, criminal, modus operandi, scene of crime, weapon of offence, sign, clues and everything involved in a crime are unique and has their own individuality. Recent studies show that even lip prints of human have their own individual characteristics (Kavitha, et al, 2009;Reddy, 2011;Saraswathi, et al, 2009;Verghese, et al, 2010). …”

Section: Law Of Individuality and Locard's Principlementioning

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Law of Individuality and Locard’s Principle from Islamic Perspective

Baharuddin¹,

Harun²,

Ruskam³

et al. 2015

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Section: Law Of Individuality and Locard's Principlementioning

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Law of Individuality and Locard’s Principle from Islamic Perspective

Baharuddin¹,

Harun²,

Ruskam³

et al. 2015

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“…A lip print at the scene of a crime can be a basis for conclusions as to the character of the event, the number of the people involved, sexes, cosmetics used, habits, occupational traits, and the pathological changes of lips themselves. 6 Lip prints are usually left at crime scenes and can provide direct link to the suspect.…”

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“…Dr. Martin Santos proposed that these lip characteristics could be used in personal identification and thus devised a simple system for classifying lip prints. 6 The classification is as follows: Santos divided lip prints into four types mainly: Straight line, Curved line, Angled Sine shaped line. Since 1950, the Japanese carried out extensive research in the matter of study of lip print patterns.…”

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A comparative study of lip print patterns in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

Thakur

Ghosh

Puri³

et al. 2017

Int J Res Med Sci

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Background: External surface of lips has many elevations and depressions forming a characteristic pattern called lip prints, the study of which is known as cheiloscopy. This is unique for the individuals like in fingerprints.Methods: The present study was conducted in 40 pairs of twins and their families to evaluate the possibility of variation of lip print patterns in twins and their parents to find out any similarity among twins and their families. The twins were taken as the primary subject and their parents as the secondary subjects.Results: The subjects with congenital lip deformity and any inflammation were excluded from the study. The lip prints were taken on the cello tape and highlighted with the black printer powder of Oddyessy make. the photographs were taken for the permanent record. The prints were studied on Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software and classified under Tsuchihashi classification.Conclusions: Comparison of lip prints showed that they are unique to each individual and among twins revealed that they are similar but not identical and their characteristics resembled either parent. Since the lip print patterns are unique, lip print analysis can be considered as a tool for personal identification.

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“…But when it comes to court of law the complexity of the identification process increases. 2 Here comes the role of forensic experts along with identification procedures. Essentially these procedures should be simple, possibly flawless and applicable to population.…”

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