The present study considers the muscle impedance control of upper lip-jaw coordination for jaw mechanical perturbations during bilabial utterances. When we perturbed jaw movement for the / / utterance in the carrier sentences of ”kono a a a mitai”, labial distance was recovered quickly by the downward shift of the upper lip [8]. Initial downward shift (40ms after the load onset) of the upper li...

We repaired a long horizontal defect in the lower lip caused by the resection of squamous cell carcinoma by reconstructing the white lip with a V-Y advancement flap and vermilion with a tongue flap. During this procedure, we deepithelialized the V-Y flap, lifted the upper margin of the flap and sutured it to the remaining upper margin of the lip, and then covered it with the tongue flap, result...

INTRODUCTION The soft tissue paradigm is placing greater emphasis on the importance of the soft tissue profile to orthodontic treatment planning. The purpose of this study was to determine the lip dimensions of a Nigerian adult population; compare the male and female values and to compare the values obtained for Nigerians with those reported for other population. METHODOLOGY Lateral cephalome...

Aim: The aim of this case report is to highlight an extremely rare syndrome with oral manifestations from an oral medicine perspective. Background: Ascher’s syndrome is an infrequent disease initially described by Ascher, an ophthalmologist, characterized by three more or less consistently associated abnormalitiesdouble lip, blepharochalasis and enlargement of thyroid gland. This syndrome can b...

Lip reconstruction following resection for tumour or following extensive trauma may pose a challenge. This is more so when the resection is total and a complete lip has to be constructed. We present a case of lip reconstruction following a total resection of the upper lip. The procedure used in this case was a combination of bilateral nasolabial flaps with a submental flap and buccal mucosal gr...

Reconstruction of the upper lip requires symmetrical reconstruction of hairy male skin according to the aesthetic principle. A moderate defect of the upper lip had nonhairy skin on the upper one-third and hairy skin on the lower two-thirds in a Korean man. A hairy preauricular free flap is useful for correcting superficial-thickness skin defects of the upper lip, when local and regional flaps a...

BACKGROUND Trichoadenoma of Nikolowski, who describe the first cases in 1958, is a rare and benign tumor of the hair follicle. It is well-differentiated and slowly-growing. The clinical appearance of Trichoadenoma (TA) can be similar to basal cell carcinoma or epidermal cyst. RESULTS We describe a 44-year-old male who was referred for nodular lesion on the upper lip and a TA was diagnosed. Or...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between psychosociocultural factors and dental malocclusion, facial appearance, body perception. Material Methods: carried out with participation 112 female 113 male individuals ages 18 25. Individuals were asked answer Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Physical Appearance Comparison Scale Revised, Sociocultural Attitudes Towards...