No. Buccal swab (cheek swab) tests are just as accurate as blood testing. Because DNA is found in every cell in the human body cheek cells give us the answer and is just as accurate.

If you have questions about your paternity test results, I recommend contacting the laboratory that completed the testing and speaking with them. Also, you may want to look at completing a legal paternity test. That is where all participants are collected at facility by a third party and ID is verified. This helps with making sure all DNA samples are from the correct participants when they are sent in for testing. If you do have other questions please feel free to contact our client support team at 888-404-4363 Mon-Fri 0am-8pm EST. They are more than happy to answer all of your questions.

Here at Identigene, we can not test DNA samples without the participants consent. We can test “special specimens” such as hair, etc. if we have consent, and there are additional costs involved because of the additional work in the lab. Your best option is to collect cheek swabs from each participant. Also, if you include both alleged fathers for paternity testing or not, its very important to let the laboratory know that the alleged fathers are related!