Comparative Analysis for Gender Determination of Palatal Rugoscopy among Children in Different Ethno-racial Populations of North Bengal

in cases when fingerprints are unavailable and also can apply to decomposed bodies, burnt bodies, and in cases of missing upper limbs. 7,8This technique is simple, fast, cost-effective, and harmless during recordings with the help of standardized procedures. 4mong the numerous identification procedures in personal identification or gender determination, DNA analysis, fingerprints, and comparison of antemortem and postmortem dental records IntroductIonForensic odontology helps identify the deceased and establish the identity and plays an essential role in racial profiling of the human population, with the help of the analysis of the intraoral features like the teeth, lips, palatal rugae, etc. Palatal rugae, also known as plica palatine transverse or rugae palatine, are anatomically transverse, irregular, asymmetrical soft-tissue ridges present on the anterior part of the palatal mucosa and are situated in the posterior region of the incisive papilla on either side of the mid-palatine raphae. 1 Palatal rugoscopy or palatoscopy (study of palatal rugae patterns) is significant in forensic odontology since they remain intact and protected from any kind of trauma or high temperature.3][4] These palatal rugae patterns are inimitable to an individual and can be paralleled to the fingerprints that aid in forensic identification. 5,6It is also available for forensic identification because it is difficult to counterfeit but easy to observe and measure.Every individual has an exclusive palatal rugae confirmation that remains unaffected and unaltered during their lifetime apart from their dimension concerning the growth of an individual.Palatal rugoscopy has attained its significance since it can be useful 1,