Open AccessA study of lip prints and its reliability as a forensic tool
Author(s) -
Yogendra Verma,
A Einstein,
Rajesh Gondhalekar,
Anoop Verma,
Jiji George,
Shaleen Chandra,
Shalini Gupta,
Firoza Samadi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
national journal of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-3418
pISSN - 0975-5950
DOI - 10.4103/0975-5950.168227
Subject(s) - medicine , forensic science , orthodontics , scars , deformity , dentistry , surgery , veterinary medicine
Lip prints, like fingerprints, are unique to an individual and can be easily recorded. Therefore, we compared direct and indirect lip print patterns in males and females of different age groups, studied the inter- and intraobserver bias in recording the data, and observed any changes in the lip print patterns over a period of time, thereby, assessing the reliability of lip prints as a forensic tool.