title: Reliability of specific finger dermatoglyphic patterns and their association with dental caries.
abstract: The etiology of dental caries is generally agreed to be a complex problem with many indirect factors that may obscure the direct cause or causes. There is substantial evidence that heredity plays an important role in this disease. Dermatoglyphics is a study that can be used to indicate congenital abnormalities. This study sought to determine a correlation between the prevalence of dental caries and dermatoglyphic fingerprint patterns, and thus assess the reliability of such patterns for identifying a susceptibility to dental caries. The results showed that the association between people with dental caries and whorls in their fingerprints was 60.4% . The association between people without caries who had loops in their fingerprints was 55.7%. These associations had a statistical significance of P < 0.001.
authors.forename: Pratibha
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ramani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sentamilselvi
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Narayan
authors.forename: Priya
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Premkumar
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Anuja
authors.forename: Herald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sherlin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Abilasha
mesh_terms: D003731:Dental Caries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results