study of the patterns of lip prints among Libyans in Benghazi city

ABSTRACT

The last few decades have seen the development of the exaggerated importance of lip prints as another skin impression which may be useful in identification and useful in diagnosis of congenital diseases. This study was carried out on 303 persons, 173 males and 130 females with age ranging from 14-24 years. They were secondary school and university Libyan students in Benghazi City. Lip prints were obtained through the use of lip stick onto a glazed white paper. The obtained lip prints were classified according to the different types of lip print patterns and correlated with sex. A new pattern of lip prints was observed for the first time among Libyans in which one of the lip grooves branches into two limbs, then reunite again. No similarity was observed between any two lip prints. Lip prints were formed of more than two patterns. No significant difference was observed between males and females