• Corpus ID: 55988722

Enamel rod end patterns: a preliminary study using acetate peel technique and automated biometrics

@inproceedings{Manjunath2008EnamelRE,
  title={Enamel rod end patterns: a preliminary study using acetate peel technique and automated biometrics},
  author={K Manjunath and Gopu Sriram and T. R. Saraswathi},
  year={2008}
}

• K. Manjunath, G. Sriram, T. Saraswathi
• Published 2008
• Medicine

Dental enamel is the highly mineralized tissue in the human body and resists post mortem degradation. Tooth prints are the enamel rod end patterns on tooth surface. In this study, acetate peal technique is used to record enamel rod end patterns on tooth surface. Microphotograph of the acetate peel imprint is subjected to biometric analysis using Verifinger standard SDK 5.0 to obtain the pattern of enamel rod ends (tooth prints). 30 extracted tooth were selected, and tooth prints were obtained. We observed that unlike finger prints, tooth prints were composed of various sub-patterns like wavy-branched, wavyunbranched, linear-branched, linear-unbranched, whorl-open, whorl-closed, loop and stem-like. Each tooth print was made up of combination of the eight different sub-patterns. The tooth prints obtained were compared both between and within the same individual. None of the patterns showed intra- and interindividual similarity. Further studies are needed to explore the usefulness of tooth prints for personal identification.