BACKGROUND The specialization of forensic odontology is fast emerging as a branch that helps in personal identification of both living as well as dead individuals and also in crime scene investigations. Establishing a person's identity can be a challenging task in cases of road accidents or acts of terrorism or mass disaster scenario. It is an established fact that palatal rugae are unique for ...

UNLABELLED This study analyzes the rugae pattern in dentulous and edentulous patients and also evaluates the association of rugae pattern between males and females. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate rugae patterns in dentulous and edentulous patients of both sexes in South Indian population and to find whether palatoscopy is a useful tool in human identification. MATERIALS ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Human identification is the forensic odontologist's primary duty in the fields like violent crime, child abuse, elder abuse, missing persons and mass disaster scenarios. In each context, dental traits may produce compelling evidence to aid victim identity, suspect identity and narrow down the outcome of investigative casework. Sometimes it becomes necessary to apply so...

Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the rugae pattern changes (rugae number, length, shape, direction, and unification) in completely edentulous patients treated with complete denture. Materials Methods: A total 100 subjects were selected for study. experimental group comprised 60 participants (30 males 30 females) who had undergone denture treatment control 40 (20 20 dentulous fixed par...

Myrmecina salmahae sp. n. is described and illustrated based on the worker caste from highland of Sumatra, Indonesia. This species easily separated other 16 recorded Sumatra by a combination following features worker: relatively large (HL 1.73−1.81 mm, HW 1.94−2.02 WL 2.18−2.36 mm); posterior margin head slightly concave; mesosoma in lateral view short stout, as long height, with dorsal outline...

Aim: To assess the reliability and validity of morphometric features on 3D digital models produced by scanning maxillary dental casts Malaysian Malay subjects. Methods: Dental 20 subjects were scanned using a laser scanner (Next Engine Inc., Santa Monica, California, USA). The palatal rugae assessed resulting 3-Matic Research 9.0 software (Materialise NV, Heverlee, Belgium). assessments repeate...

The most challenging situations in Forensic Odonto-Stomatology are mass disasters, where the forensic dentist is usually confronted with charred human remains or heavily decomposed or fragmented bodies. This article determines the extent of preservation of palatal rugae for use as an alternative identification tool in such situations, using a study group comprising burn victims and cadavers sim...

Speech is imperative for human communication. Therefore, phonetics must be considered , along with mechanics and esthetics as the integral factors in contributing to the success of a dental prothesis . Palatal rugae contours have a very important role in phonetics, by production of linguopalatal sounds that involves the contact between tongue and palate. By customizing palatal contours of a max...

OBJECTIVE To (1) evaluate the stability of palatal rugae as landmarks for superimposition of dental casts and (2) establish a three-dimensional superimposition method of maxillary dental casts for analyzing orthodontic tooth movement. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample consisted of dental casts obtained from 10 patients treated with extraction of bilateral maxillary first premolars and placemen...

Background. Palatal rugae pattern of an individual is species specific and is said to be as unique as finger print. Aims and Objectives. The aim of this study was to identify and compare the rugae pattern of Igbo and Ikwerre populations in Nigeria for human identification purposes. Materials and Methods. The present study was conducted from random sampling of University of Port Harcourt student...