Linking growth pattern with Lipprints and fingerprints.

Lips have a significant role in aesthetic as well as identification purpose and needs to be taken into account for human identification. Therefore, it is of interest to establish a correlation between cheiloscopic patterns (Lip print), dermatoglyphic patterns (Fingerprint) and different growth patterns. The cheiloscopic pattern was obtained using a dark colored lip stick and transparent adhesive tape. Suzuki and Tsuchihashi's classification was used to classify the cheiloscopic patterns. Finger prints were recorded using inkless stamp pads onto white sheets and. There was a statistical significance only between loop pattern of fingerprints in females who had horizontal growth pattern (p= 0.04). Thus, we show that the dermatoglyphic pattern, cheiloscopic pattern and growth pattern are not correlated with each other.