Title
Evaluation of gender determination using lip prints as an adjunctive tool among Indians
Authors
Manoj Meena1, Monika Sharma2, Bireswar Roy*, 3, Prasad Deeliprao Adhapure4, Yogesh bande5 & Jayant Ambulgekar6
Affiliation
1Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; 2Department of Dentistry, Ananta Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Institute, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India; 3Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Faridabad, Haryana, India; 4Department of Prosthodontics, CSMSS Dental College and Hospital, Kanchanwadi, Chhatrapati, Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, India; 5Department of Pediatric dentistry, Nanded Rural Dental College and Research Centre, Maharashtra, India; 6Consultant Periodontologist, Ambulgekar's Smilax Dental Clinic, Chhatrapati, Sambhajinagar , Maharashtra , India; *Corresponding author
Manoj Meena - E - mail: meenadrmanoj@gmail.com
Monika Sharma - E - mail: monicasharma@gmail.com
Bireswar Roy - E - mail: bireswarr12@gmail.com
Prasad Deeliprao Adhapure - E - mail: dr.prasadadhapure@gmail.com
Yogesh bande - E - mail: dr.yogeshbande@gmail.com
Jayant Ambulgekar - E - mail: jayant.ambulgekar@gmail.com
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received October 1, 2024; Revised October 31, 2024; Accepted October 31, 2024, Published October 31, 2024
Abstract
Cheiloscopy is defined as the study of lip prints. Lip prints are permanent and unique to each person and are useful in personal identification. Variations in lip prints patterns among males and females could help in sex determination to throw some light on lip prints and gender determination. The study was conducted on 100 subjects including 50 males and 50 females. Lip prints pattern were recorded and classified as per Tsuchihashi's classification into 6 types. Once the classification was done, then they were compared with each other for determining the uniqueness. The results obtained subjected to the statistical analysis. Majority of the subjects belonged to TYPE 1A and TYPE 1B. Type 1A and Type 1B (32%) was common in females and Type 1A (31%) was more common in males which was statistically significant in determining the gender (p value < 0.05). Lip prints hold the potential to identify gender determination.
Keywords
Cheiloscopy, Gender determination & Lip prints.
Citation
Meena et al. Bioinformation 20(10): 1215-1217 (2024)
Edited by
Neelam Goyal & Shruti Dabi
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
