INTRODUCTION A congenital lower lip nevus is common, but a lower lip length lesion of more than 40% is hard to excise simply, without any distortion. We designed a lower lip bilateral advanced skin flap to restore the wound surface after completely and successfully removing the nevus. CASE PRESENTATION A 13-year-old Mongolian girl was referred to us with a giant congenital lower lip nevus. Th...

BACKGROUND Long term health of the stomatognathic system as well as esthetic aspects is the therapeutic goals in patients with oro facial clefts. AIM The aim of this study was to assess and compare the periodontal status of patients with cleft lip (CL), cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip, alveolus and palate (CLAP) reporting to a hospital in Chennai, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study grou...

The aim of this study was to measure and compare the dimensions of the dental arches on three-dimensional digital study models in children with and without cleft lip and palate before the primary surgery. The sample consisted of 223 digital models of children aged 3-9 months, divided into 5 groups: without craniofacial deformities, unilateral and bilateral incomplete cleft lip and alveolus, uni...

BACKGROUND Children with cleft lip and palate are at risk for psychological problems. Difficulties in mother-child interactions may be relevant, and could be affected by the timing of lip repair. METHOD We assessed cognitive development, behaviour problems, and attachment in 94 infants with cleft lip (with and without cleft palate) and 96 non-affected control infants at 18 months; mother-infa...

This paper is concerned with lip localization for visual speech recognition (VSR) system. We shall present an efficient method for localization human’s lips/mouth in video images. This method is based on using the YCbCr approach to find at least any part of the lip as an initial step. Then we use all the available information about the segmented lip-pixels such as r, g, b, warped hue, etc. to s...

The incidence of cleft lip in CL/Fr mouse is 18-2500. The purpose of this study is to clarify the cause of cleft lip in CL/Fr mouse using whole embryo culture system which is a useful technique in studying the development of mammalian embryos in vitro. We examined the incidence of cleft lip in CL/Fr and F, mouse embryo (male CL/Fr x female C57BL/6) in vitro. The embryos were explanted on day 10...

Curcumin (CRM) and nerve growth factor (NGF) were entrapped in liposomes (LIP) with surface wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) to downregulate the phosphorylation of kinases in Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapy. Cardiolipin (CL)-conjugated LIP carrying CRM (CRM-CL/LIP) and also carrying NGF (NGF-CL/LIP) were used with AD models of SK-N-MC cells and Wistar rats after an insult with β-amyloid peptide (Aβ...

As we all known, various speakers have their own talking styles. Hence, lip shape and its movement can be used as a new biometrics and infer the speaker’s identity. Compared with the traditional biometrics such as human face and fingerprint, person verification based on the lip feature has the advantage of containing both static and dynamic information. Many researchers have demonstrated that i...