Forehead Morphology Pattern: Does it indicate the Potential Existence of the so-called Forehead Print?

Forehead is a part of the human body that never been used in forensics or studied for its potential usefulness in forensics. No one ever talked about the variability of forehead morphology among individuals or how can forehead and/or its impression potentially be used for forensic individual identification. In the present study, forehead images were taken for the foreheads of 800 unrelated consented male subjects, volunteers of the Egyptian origin, ranging in age from 10 to over 70 years. Careful examination of the collected forehead images was conducted by the naked eye observation for the existence of forehead wrinkles or any thing else on the forehead that can be specific for the forehead of the individual such as dermatological lesion/s, recent wound or scar of old wound or anything else that can be of value in the individual identification. Forehead wrinkles were examined for the number, shape, position and direction. Forehead could be categorized according to the morphology of the wrinkling pattern that they have. There are two types of forehead wrinkles, horizontal and vertical. Forehead examined for the age of appearance of forehead wrinkles and for the persistence of the wrinkling pattern. Forehead wrinkles have proven that they are persistent and when they appear, they remain throughout the lifetime. Forehead wrinkles have been examined for their shape during different expressions to see what they look like during these expressions. Foreheads were also examined to see what one can rely upon in identification of forehead, especially when the forehead wrinkles are absent.