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Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Human identification is one of the challenging areas that man has been confronted with. The forensic odontologist deals with human identification based on unique features of the oral cavity. The human tongue is sheathed within the oral cavity, where it lies protected again...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jaya, Singh, Shruti, Saleem, Mohd, Chandra, Shaleen, Lodhi, Neelam, Chang, Chai Pin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33041577
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_40_19
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author Singh, Jaya
Singh, Shruti
Saleem, Mohd
Chandra, Shaleen
Lodhi, Neelam
Chang, Chai Pin
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description BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Human identification is one of the challenging areas that man has been confronted with. The forensic odontologist deals with human identification based on unique features of the oral cavity. The human tongue is sheathed within the oral cavity, where it lies protected against the external atmosphere, just as the palatine folds. It is can be easily showed for inspection but at the same time be protected from the external environment. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to examine the uniqueness of tongue morphology and find out parameters to estimate gender of an individual using the same. METHODOLOGY: A total of 30 subjects (15 girls and 15 boys) were taken for this study whose tongue were examined, photographed and alginate impression were taken to create a database of tongue morphology. RESULT: The mean posterior width of the tongue was higher among the males in both cast as well as photographs.
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spelling pubmed-75184782020-10-09 Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity Singh, Jaya Singh, Shruti Saleem, Mohd Chandra, Shaleen Lodhi, Neelam Chang, Chai Pin Natl J Maxillofac Surg Original Article BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Human identification is one of the challenging areas that man has been confronted with. The forensic odontologist deals with human identification based on unique features of the oral cavity. The human tongue is sheathed within the oral cavity, where it lies protected against the external atmosphere, just as the palatine folds. It is can be easily showed for inspection but at the same time be protected from the external environment. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to examine the uniqueness of tongue morphology and find out parameters to estimate gender of an individual using the same. METHODOLOGY: A total of 30 subjects (15 girls and 15 boys) were taken for this study whose tongue were examined, photographed and alginate impression were taken to create a database of tongue morphology. RESULT: The mean posterior width of the tongue was higher among the males in both cast as well as photographs. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7518478/ /pubmed/33041577 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_40_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Singh, Jaya
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Saleem, Mohd
Chandra, Shaleen
Lodhi, Neelam
Chang, Chai Pin
Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity
title Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity
title_full Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity
title_fullStr Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity
title_full_unstemmed Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity
title_short Tongue and its ties: Posterior tongue width in gender estimation – A forensic gratuity
title_sort tongue and its ties: posterior tongue width in gender estimation – a forensic gratuity
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33041577
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_40_19
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