Bhargava Ankur, Chatterjee Silpi, Rehan Ahmad Danish, Sharma Ruchi, Husain Fasahat, Joshi Asha
Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India.
Dental College JNIMS, Imphal, Manipur, India.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2022 Jul;14(Suppl 1):S554-S556. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_160_22. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
Proof of identity acts as a key title role in any criminal investigation. Training of tongue prints has been documented and acknowledged as the gold standard for personal identification worldwide nowadays. Tongue printing has proved as an innovative biometric tool and can be relied upon as an authoritative forensic tool. Research works have been carried out on tongue print independently. However, studies focusing on the morphology or shape of the tongue have not been commenced to a prodigious scope.
The contemporary trial was undertaken upon the people to train and scrutiny the morphological shape of the tongue and validate their magnitude as assistance in sexual dimorphism.
Hundred dental students in the age group of 18-25 years were included in the trial. For the trial clinical scrutiny, photographs and lingual impressions were recorded of the tongue.
In the current trial of the shape of the tongue for gender identification, we used two classifications. According to TCM criteria, five tongue shapes were used for gender identification: rectangle, acute triangle, obtuse triangle, square, and circle. Among the 100 subjects, the square-shaped tongue was chiefly observed, trailed by the circle and obtuse triangle. In the second criteria, Stefanescu . classified tongues into two shapes: U- and V-shaped. When the tongue shape was scrutinized, U shape was seen in 79 persons and V shape in 21 persons out of 100 subjects.
Hence, the trial concluded that tongue prints exhibited a qualitative result among diverse sex groupings. It can be preached that the human tongue possibilities to distribute a point of exceptionality in morphological shape; besides, it is apt for utilization in gender acknowledgment.
身份验证在任何刑事调查中都起着关键的核心作用。舌印训练已有文献记载，并被公认为当今世界个人身份识别的黄金标准。舌印已被证明是一种创新的生物识别工具，可作为一种权威性的法医工具加以依赖。关于舌印的研究工作已经独立开展。然而，针对舌头形态或形状的研究尚未大规模展开。
对人群进行当代试验，以训练和审视舌头的形态形状，并验证其在性别二态性方面作为辅助手段的重要性。
试验纳入了100名年龄在18 - 25岁的牙科学生。为进行试验临床检查，记录了舌头的照片和舌印。
在本次关于舌头形状用于性别识别的试验中，我们采用了两种分类方法。根据中医标准，使用五种舌头形状进行性别识别：长方形、锐角三角形、钝角三角形、正方形和圆形。在100名受试者中，主要观察到的是正方形舌头，其次是圆形和钝角三角形。在第二种分类标准中，斯特凡内斯库将舌头分为两种形状：U形和V形。在对100名受试者的舌头形状进行检查时，发现79人是U形，21人是V形。
因此，试验得出结论，舌印在不同性别群体中呈现出定性结果。可以推断，人类舌头在形态形状上可能存在独特之处；此外，它适用于性别识别。
