LIP FORENSICS; CHEILOSCOPIC PATTERN AMONG POPULATION OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN.

摘要

Personal identity is an attribute of a mankind which makes him or her unique.Cheiloscopy is one of the sciences which is used to study and examine the lip prints patternin order to establish the personal identity in Forensic Medicine. Objective: To categorize lippatterns in female population of different divisions of Punjab, Pakistan according to Suzukiand Tsuchihashi’s classification. Study Design: Descriptive, Cross-sectional study. Setting:The present study was conducted on 357 female medical students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd yearof University Medical and Dental College, Faisalabad in the department of Forensic Medicineand Toxicology. Period: March-June, 2018. Materials and Methods: After obtaining informedconsent students were asked to stand erect and their lip prints were taken on the glass slide. Nextcarbon black powder was dispensed on the slide and the latent lip print pattern was obtained.The slide was preserved by using cellophane tape and lip print patterns were scanned. Thesepatterns were then categorized according to Suzuki and Tsuchihashi’s classification by usingSoftware Adobe Photoshop version 6.0. Results: The results showed that most participantswere from central Punjab (70%) followed by Southern Punjab (19%), Western Punjab (9.6%)and Northern Punjab (1.4%). The most common lip print pattern was Type I (66%), second wasType II (17.3%), then Type IV (7.1%), after that Type III (5.1%), Type I?(2.5%) & last was Type V(1.7%). Conclusion: The most common lip print pattern in females of Punjab, Pakistan is TypeI while the least common is Type V.