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    19th NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF IAFO

    “Dentistry in the Delivery of Truth & Justice”


    CHEILOSCOPY
    Author: Noor Zainab, UG Student,
    M R Ambedkar Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore
    Co-Author: Mohammed Ata ur Rahman Sharieff, UG Student,
    M R Ambedkar Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore
    Guide: Dr. Deepak V, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral
    and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology Faculty,
    Centre for Forensic dentistry
    M R Ambedkar Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore
    Affiliation: Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
    Cheiloscopy
    Cheiloscopy is a forensic investigation technique which deals with identification of humans based
    on the lip traces and was first described by R.Fischer in 1902, who is an Anthropologist.
    Use of lip prints in personal identification was first recommended in France by Edmund Locard.
    Similar to prints in the finger, palm and foot; lip prints are also unique and do not change through
    an individual’s lifetime.
    Lip prints provide sufficient information for forensic investigations as the lips also possess furrows
    and grooves.
    Grooves play a very vital role; in 1967 Santos was the FIRST to classify lip grooves, this
    classification gave a turning point to the importance of cheiloscopy in forensic odontology.
    Cheiloscopy has been used for over a decade by human race to find the accused as well to to
    gather data from a crime scene and is a technique accepted by the judicial bodies.
    Cheiloscopy remains one of the, if not The most popular and accepted methods used in forensic
    investigation.
    HISTORY
    The anthropologist, R. Fischer in 1902, was the first
    person to recognize the presence of lines on the human
    lips but he did not give any practical use of this
    phenomenon. During 1968-1971, two Japanese scientists
    Yasuo Tsuchihashi and Tazuo Suzuki examined 1364 lip
    prints at the Department of Forensic Odontology (Tokyo
    University). Based on their research they concluded the
    uniqueness and individualistic nature of patterns of
    human lip prints. In Hungary in 1961, the research started
    when lip impressions were found at the door of glass in a
    murder case and later they were proved to be useful in
    investigation process
    IMPORTANCE OF CHEILOSCOPY
    1. Personal identification

    The lip prints are unique to everyone and thus if found at the
    crime scene can play a significant role in identification of the
    criminal.

    2. Race determination

    On the basis of thickness of lips, 4 groups can be identified:

    ● Thin lips (common in European caucasoids)


    ● Medium lips (8 to 10 mm, are most commonly found)
    ● Thick lips (generally found in negroids)
    ● Mix lips (commonly found in orientals)
    IMPORTANCE OF CHEILOSCOPY
    3. Sex determination
    Various studies have been conducted to determine sex based on the
    lip prints. In a research conducted by Vahanwala et al (on the basis of
    Suzuki and Tsuchihashi), it was concluded that certain pattern trends
    are generally common in one of the sexes:
    ● Type I and type I’ are common in females in 3rd and 4th quadrants ( in
    the lower lip).
    ● Type II is dominant in males in the 2nd quadrant that is upper lip (left
    side)
    ● Individuals with all quadrants having unlike patterns are commonly
    found in males whereas having same patterns in all four quadrants
    are seen in females.
    4. The lip prints can also give other details such as cosmetics used,
    habits, occupational qualities and the pathological changes of lips.
    5. Lip prints are studied in postmortem cases and important in
    identification of corpses.
    CLASSIFICATION OF LIP GROOVES
    ● Type I- Straight grooves that extend throughout the
    lip
    ● Type I’- Straight grooves but are not present
    throughout the entire breadth of lip
    ● Type II- Forked grooves
    ● Type III- Intersecting grooves
    ● Type IV- Reticulate grooves
    ● Type V- Undetermined
    ANALOGOUS TRAITS OF CHEILOSCOPY TO
    FINGER PRINTS
    Cheiloscopy is analogous to fingerprint analysis, and is a genuine
    sub-speciality of forensic odontology.

    Lip prints bring added evidence to a crime scene that can be valuable,
    especially in cases lacking other evidence, like fingerprints. Lip prints
    can be a factor in many different kinds of crimes, such as tape when a
    person has been bound or gagged, prints on a glass that a person drank
    from, prints on a cigarette butt, and prints on a glass/window if they
    were pressed up against it. All of these are potential places where lip
    prints may be found and used in the investigation of a crime.
    CASES SOLVED
    ● In 1966 in Poland, cheiloscopy proved to be helpful in
    solving the case of burglary. The analysis by expert was
    done and it was found that the lip impression found on
    crime scene did not match with suspect and thus helped
    in proceeding further in investigation.
    ● In 1970, an extremely rare case was reported where it
    was analyzed that the lip prints found on envelope do
    not belong to the suspects..
    ● In 1988, a burglary case in grocery store was solved due
    to the lip prints found. Lip prints were found along with
    the tooth marks on a piece of cake. The analysis
    revealed that the person who had left the trace was one
    of the burglars. The results of both tooth mark and lip
    prints supported the idea of involvement of that burglar.
    CHEILOSCOPY IN NIRBHAYA’S CASE
    Scientific and forensic evidence like DNA, finger prints, bite marks analysis and
    lip prints today sealed the fate of the four convicts in the December 16, 2012
    gangrape and murder case as the Supreme Court termed them accurate.

    The top court said while DNA report "cogently linked" each of these accused with
    the victim and the crime scene, the fingerprint analysis "incontrovertibly proves"
    that one of the convicts, Vinay Sharma, was present in the bus at the time of the
    barbaric incident.

    Regarding Odontology, a branch of forensic science on bite mark analysis, a bench


    headed by Justice Dipak Misra said the report placed on record was "wholly
    credible" because of the matching of bite marks and lip marks with the tooth
    structure and lip (grooves & furrows) of the convicts and there was no reason to
    view them with any suspicion.
    CONCLUSION
    Cheiloscopy in forensic science can be used as a reliable aid for human identification. Lip
    prints like fingerprints are unique to an individual, and analysis of lip prints is very simple
    and inexpensive. There is continuous development in the field of cheiloscopy and in future it
    can be used in par with other standard methods in crime investigation. Therefore, it is
    recommended that lip print records should be maintained for every individual similar to
    fingerprints. Recording of lip prints and maintaining ante mortem data can be included as a
    component in dental records, as it may help in future person identification. Lip prints can be
    considered as important evidence to identify suspects and victims and hence, these
    prints may be a potential investigative resource in forensic science.

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