OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to assess the direction and degree of lip-line cant in Korean adult orthodontic patients and to identify the effects of sex and age on changes in the cant severity. METHODS In this cross-sectional retrospective study, lip-line cant was measured in the frontal photographs of 585 Korean patients (92 men and 493 women) aged 18-48 years. The outcome variables...

Self mutilation of lips and tongue is considered a common type of Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB). Treatment of SIB in the form of Lip-Biting in developmentally disabled individuals has been the focus of several related reports using different oral appliances preventing or inhibiting the SIB. In this paper we report a case of SIB in the form of Lip-Biting on an infant with Chiari Type II Malforma...

BACKGROUND As lip augmentation becomes more popular, validated measures of lip fullness for quantification of outcomes are needed. OBJECTIVE Develop a scale for rating lip fullness and establish its reliability and sensitivity for assessing clinically meaningful differences. METHODS The initial Allergan Lip Fullness Scale (iLFS; a four-point photographic scale with verbal descriptions) was ...

INTRODUCTION Lip tape therapy or lip taping is a widely used tissue approximation technique in cleft lip babies. Vari ous tapes have been tested and used worldwide. Allergic reactions and skin irritation are the most common problems encountered. Tension force across the tape cannot be consistently applied. Cost is also an obstacle to adopting lip tape therapy, particularly in developing countri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of echographic imaging of healthy and reconstructed cleft lip and to estimate tissue dimensions and normalized echo level. METHODS Echographic images of the upper lip were made on three healthy subjects and two patients using a linear array transducer (7 to 11 MHz bandwidth) and a noncontact gel coupling. Tissue dimensions were measured using calipers....

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...

Cleft lip with or without cleft palate is one of the most common congenital malformations in newborns. While numerous studies on secondary palatogenesis exist, data regarding normal upper lip formation and cleft lip is limited. We previously showed that conditional inactivation of Tgf-beta type I receptor Alk5 in the ectomesenchyme resulted in total facial clefting. While the role of Tgf-beta s...

objective(s): leishmaniasis is a complex parasitic disease that represents a major public health problem. despite numerous attempts over the past decades, yet there is no effective vaccine against human leishmaniasis probably due to the lack of suitable adjuvants. in this study, a first generation liposomal-based leishmania vaccine was developed using soluble leishmania major antigens (sla) and...

statement of the problem: in the evolution of orthodontics, the changes in soft tissue, especially smile line attracts considerable attention. purpose: the present study was carried out to evaluate the correlation of the smile line with the vertical parameters of anterior part of face. materials and methods: forty-six iranian adults, aged between 18-25 years were selected. five quantitative and...

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...