Cheiloscopy: a succor in investigation and identification: a recent review

As we become more civilised, there’s been an gradual increase in crime rate leading to gross injustice owing to shortfalls in terms of identification. With advances in field of dentistry it aids in identification and providing evidences of the crime to the law firm. The pattern on the lips has individual characteristics. The finger prints in the beginning were the only means of identification but now investigators can also rely on cheiloscopy as evidence. Cheiloscopy also known as quiloscopy which is defined as a method of identification of a person based on characteristic arrangement of lines appearing on the red part of lips. The tremendous research done in the field of cheiloscopy highlight the fact that the possibilities to use the lips to identify a human being are wider than it is commonly thought.