Identificación de sexo mediante queiloscopia en Santander, Colombia: una herramienta para la medicina forense. Estudio inicial

Abstract

BackgroundIn Colombia no previous research has been carried out to know the lip prints patterns more prevalent on population, thereby preventing the use of this tool for forensics, which has shown great utility in personal identification. MethodAt a regional level, by a cross-sectional descriptive study we studied the lip prints of 60 students of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. We included 30 men and 30 women between 18 and 25 years old without significant ethnic or racial differences. ResultsThe prevalent patterns in the women's group were type v (36.6%), type i’ (26.6%) and type i (13.3%). In the men's group the first one was type i’ (40%), then type i (16.6%). We found that the lip print type ii was the less prevalent (5%), and type i’ was the most prevalent in Colombian population (33.3%). ConclusionsCheiloscopy like a tool for sex determination in forensic pathology in a criminal scene it is a useful method because some differences between sexes were found. However, it is necessary to establish the features of lip prints in each population, therefore we recommend to carry out more research in Colombia and the rest of the world where this tool could be useful.