Palatal Rugoscopy: A new era for forensic identification
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Palatal rugoscopy among Puducherry population.
BACKGROUND Human identification is one of the most challenging subjects that man has been confronted with. The fingerprints and DNA comparison are the most commonly used techniques in human identification. Palatoscopy is one of the recently developing methods to identify a victim-based on the palatal rugae pattern. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to analyze the different rugae pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0972-1363
DOI: 10.4103/0972-1363.170469