INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW The smile is a key factor in the composition of an individual’s overall beauty. Hence, it’s noticed the modern society’s growing demand for beautiful, healthy smiles. Within this context, orthodontics plays a role of paramount importance. Several parameters are available to assess smile esthetics, such as amount of gingival display, midline, buccal corridor, i...

The congenital upper lip sinuses are rare and they have previously been reported only in 40 cases. We have presented a case report of congenital midline upper lip sinus in an elderly age. Although the treatment modality is very easy and successful in any cases, the etiology of this rare congenital situation has been obscure and further studies should be done to find out.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in incisor inclination following orthodontic treatment in Class II division 2 patients, and to assess the long-term stability after retention. Dental casts and cephalograms of 61 Class II division 2 patients (31 males and 30 females, mean age 13.4 years) with a closed lip seal were available before (T1), at the end of treatment (T2), and 3.5 yea...

The changes in upper and lower resting lip pressures following extension and flexion of the head and at changed mode of breathing were studied in a sample of 15 adults with Class I molar relationship. The lip pressure was measured with bonded strain gauge transducers on the upper and lower central incisors. The transducers could be calibrated directly in the subject's mouth. The upper and lower...

OBJECTIVE In patients with cleft lip and palate, the aims of this study were to generate objective measures of different attributes of lip movement and to explore the utility of these objective measures by examining the association between examiners' subjective assessments with the objective measures. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS Thirteen patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate with varyin...

Excessively large lips represent an occasional but significant challenge in aesthetic surgery. Previously described techniques focus largely on the simple excision of a strip of tissue to reduce the lips, without specific attention to the resultant lip contour or to the volume relationship between the lips. The present paper describes a new technique for lip reduction, called the 'bikini lip re...

FROM southern Tanzania two cases are briefly reported and reference is made to a third, of a carcinoma, not previously reported, arising in the upper lip in relation to a lip plug, a traditional wooden adornment worn within an orifice in the tissues of the upper lip (Fig. 1). Observations are made on the possible aetiology of this tumour in relation to other malignant tumours common in the same...