Cheiloscopic patterns in Indian population and their efficacy in sex determination: A randomized cross-sectional study.

The role played by a dental surgeon in the discipline of forensics is quite significant in terms of age and sex determination, personal identification of unknown deceased persons, analyzing bite marks as evidence, participating in mass disaster, giving evidence in child abuse, etc.[ 1 ] Cheiloscopy (from the Greek words, Cheilos = lips, Skopein = see) or the study of lip prints, which is an integral part of forensic odontology, is the forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lip traces.[ 2 ] The wrinkles and groves on the labial mucosa, called as sulci laborium, form the characteristic lip print pattern.

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