This paper describes how the visual and acoustic characteristics of some Italian phones (/’a/, /b/, /v/) are modified in emotive speech by the expression of joy, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and fear. In this research we specifically analyze the interaction between labial configurations, peculiar to each emotion, and the articulatory lip movements of the Italian vowel /’a/ and consonants ...

This clinical study examined objective smile parameters in the natural anterior dentition. Standardized intraoral and extraoral photographs were taken of 106 Caucasian adults (54 women, 52 men) with a healthy dentition. The following parameters were analyzed: correlation of dental and facial midline, upper lip position and curvature, relationship of the maxillary anterior incisal curve with low...

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...

The objective of this study was to investigate whether skeletal mandibular asymmetry associated with unilateral and anterior crossbite will lead to lip asymmetry. The subjects were 26 females, 13 controls and 13 true skeletal asymmetric age-matched patients (24-50 years). The study group was diagnosed as asymmetric according to visual and panoramic radiographic examination and exhibited a unila...

OBJECTIVES To describe the split orbicularis myomucosal flap and to review our center's experience with this technique for large defects of the lower lip. METHODS All patients presenting to the senior author (Y.D.) for lower lip reconstruction using this flap were reviewed in a retrospective fashion. RESULTS A total of 14 patients with a minimum follow-up of 6 months (mean, 3.4 years; range...

Objective To date, the management of the neck in early stage lower lip cancers remains controversial. The aim of this study is to investigate if prophylactic neck dissection is necessary in early stage lower lip cancers. Methods Charts of 11 patients who underwent surgery of the primary site and neck because of T1-2N0 lower lip cancer between 1997 and 2011 were retrospectively examined. Clini...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to find correlations between lateral cephalometric measurements and photographic measurements of facial attractiveness in a group of Egyptian adolescents. Materials and methods: Sixty adolescent laypersons judges (30 males – 30 females) participated in the evaluation of the pre-treatment photographs of 60 adolescent subjects (30 females – 30 males) for facial ...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lower lip is a frequently diagnosed malignant pathology in the maxillofacial region. It is a slow-growing cancer, and can be diagnosed and treated easily and effectively; however, early treatment is important because its mortality rate is 10% 30%. Reconstruction for a large lower lip defect is surgically challenging, especially reconstruction with local flap...