Rugoscopia palatina as the Forensic Identification Method of Human through the comparative analysis

Abstract

Introduction. The identification is the method or system used to fix the safest way the identity of a person in both civil and criminal legal life and avoid confusing it with another. The Rugoscopia is an identification technique Odonto Stomatology who cares about studying, classifying and recor- ding the palatine ridges. Objective. Provide evidence for the identification of persons living or dead through specific anatomical structures within the oral cavity. Patients and Methods. The data collection of impression the maxilla, in twenty patients arrived at the clinic Dentistry race was held. Then he proceeded to Calcorugoscopia. The duplicate obtained was divided by the midline and shapes and forms palatal num- bers were recorded on each side. The next step was filling record of each of the models belonging to the individuos. Results Studies showed the form that occurs most frequently is the curve (24), the least presented is angled and it never showed it in a circle, different ways from one side of the palate and another, most often on the right side the left side Conclusions. The palatine rugas differ from one individual to another, within the same person both halves of the palate are different also in the same person roughness on the right side are different from the left side and is an identification method that does not allow the presumption.

Keywords

Identification, forensic dentistry, palate