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Lip prints: Role in forensic odontology

Identification plays a major role in any crime investigation. The pattern of wrinkles on the lips has individual characteristics like fingerprints. Cheiloscopy is a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lips traces. In the past decades, lip-print studies...

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Autores principales: Dineshshankar, Janardhanam, Ganapathi, Nalliappan, Yoithapprabhunath, Thukanaykanpalayam Ragunathan, Maheswaran, Thangadurai, Kumar, Muniapillai Siva, Aravindhan, Ravi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23946586
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.113305
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author Dineshshankar, Janardhanam
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description Identification plays a major role in any crime investigation. The pattern of wrinkles on the lips has individual characteristics like fingerprints. Cheiloscopy is a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lips traces. In the past decades, lip-print studies attracted the attention of many scientists as a new tool for human identification in both civil and criminal issues. The lip crease pattern is on the vermilion border of the lip, which is quite mobile and lip prints may vary in appearance according to the pressure, direction and method used in making the print. It concludes by enlightening the readers with the fact that the possibilities to use the red part of lips to identify a human being are wider than it is commonly thought.
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spelling pubmed-37227152013-08-14 Lip prints: Role in forensic odontology Dineshshankar, Janardhanam Ganapathi, Nalliappan Yoithapprabhunath, Thukanaykanpalayam Ragunathan Maheswaran, Thangadurai Kumar, Muniapillai Siva Aravindhan, Ravi J Pharm Bioallied Sci Dental Science - Review Article Identification plays a major role in any crime investigation. The pattern of wrinkles on the lips has individual characteristics like fingerprints. Cheiloscopy is a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lips traces. In the past decades, lip-print studies attracted the attention of many scientists as a new tool for human identification in both civil and criminal issues. The lip crease pattern is on the vermilion border of the lip, which is quite mobile and lip prints may vary in appearance according to the pressure, direction and method used in making the print. It concludes by enlightening the readers with the fact that the possibilities to use the red part of lips to identify a human being are wider than it is commonly thought. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3722715/ /pubmed/23946586 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.113305 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Maheswaran, Thangadurai
Kumar, Muniapillai Siva
Aravindhan, Ravi
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title Lip prints: Role in forensic odontology
title_full Lip prints: Role in forensic odontology
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title_short Lip prints: Role in forensic odontology
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topic Dental Science - Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23946586
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.113305
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