study on the correlation of lip prints, fingerprints and mandibular intercanine distance for the gender determination

Background: Dental, fingerprints and DNA comparisons are most common techniques used in identification of an individual. Establishing the identity of an individual was one of the challenges faced by forensic in earlier days. The concept of "identity" is a set of physical characteristics, functional or psychic, normal or pathological- that define an individual. The present study was conducted to study the correlation of lip prints, fingerprints and mandibular intercanine distance for the gender determination. Material & methods: The study was conducted among 400 participants (200 males and 200 females) aged between 18 and 25 years, in department of Oral Pathology of the Institute of dental sciences, Sehora, Jammu. Cheiloscopy, fingerprint analysis, and mandibular canine index (MCI) were performed in each participant to investigate the accuracy in gender determination. The results of all the three parameters were collected and a correlation between each pair of the parameters was statistically done using univariate ANOVA test. Results: With regard to lip print pattern, Type II lip print was found to be predominant in males (35.5) and in both(33) whereas Type I was predominant in females (32).