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Similar to the skin (ridges) and the palatal mucosa (rugae and plicae), the lips have a surface shaped by characteristic sulci (Rackowitz 1968). Because these features remain unchanged throughout life, lip marks (cheiloscopy) may identify a person as well as fingerprints (dactyloscopy) (Rackowitz 1968; Suzuki and Tsuchihashi 1970; Pilz et al. 1980; Whittaker and MacDonald 1993) (Fig. 24.1). Labyt-Leroy, Laborier, and Georget presented a comparative study in 1999; see also Figs. 24.2, 24.3, 24.4 and 24.5.
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Rötzscher, K., Pilz, W. (2014). Lip Marks. In: Rötzscher, K. (eds) Forensic and Legal Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01330-5_24
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