Análise sobre o uso da queiloscopia na odontologia forense atual: uma revisão integrativa.

Abstract

Forensic dentistry is the specialty that investigates events that occurred to the living man, dead man or his bones. One of the methods of human identification is cheiloscopy, whose identification is through the labial folds. As this method is little known, this study aimed to present and demonstrate the techniques of cheiloscopic identification, their classification system and their use in expert cases when compared from one individual to another, through an integrative review. As materials and methods, searches were performed in Google Academic, LILACS and Scopus databases. The descriptors used for the research were “cheiloscopy”, “lip print”, “Forensic Dentistry”, “lip prints” and “forensic dentistry”. The inclusion criteria were: original research articles, including: “cheiloscopy, human identification techniques, anatomical study of the lip pattern and the practicality and uniqueness of cheiloscopy”. In total, 34 articles were found in the consulted databases, however, only 12 were included in this review. Cheiloscopy does not have a universal classification, the lips are divided into 8 subquadrants and classified into types I, I’, II, III, IV, and V, the most prevalent type of sulcus will be classified. It was concluded that cheiloscopy can be a valuable method for human identification, but it is not effective when associated with gender, ethnicity or kinship, as each individual has a unique impression and is not related to hereditary factors.