AIM To examine the prevalence of different types of dental anomalies in children with nonsyndromic cleft lip, unilateral cleft lip-palate, and bilateral cleft lip-palate. MATERIALS AND METHODS A sample of 90 patients (aged 4-20 years) affected by isolated cleft lip, unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate was examined. Cleft patients were classified into one of three groups according to...

OBJECTIVE To explore nasolabial movements in participants with repaired cleft lip and palate. DESIGN A parallel, three-group, nonrandomized clinical trial. SUBJECTS Group 1=31 participants with a cleft lip slated for revision surgery (revision), group 2=32 participants with a cleft lip who did not have surgery (nonrevision), and group 3=37 noncleft control participants. METHODS Three-dime...

DNA sequencing and microsatellite analyses were performed to investigate the relationship of Sri Lankan cutaneous leishmaniasis isolates to known species of Leishmania. This identified L. donovani as the agent of Sri Lankan cutaneous leishmaniasis, and showed these parasites are closely related to those causing visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent.

LiP (lignin peroxidase) from Trametopsis cervina has an exposed catalytic tyrosine residue (Tyr181) instead of the tryptophan conserved in other lignin-degrading peroxidases. Pristine LiP showed a lag period in VA (veratryl alcohol) oxidation. However, VA-LiP (LiP after treatment with H2O2 and VA) lacked this lag, and H2O2-LiP (H2O2-treated LiP) was inactive. MS analyses revealed that VA-LiP in...

Accurately tracking facial features requires coping with the large variation in appearance across subjects and the combination of rigid and non-rigid motion. In this paper, we describe our work toward developing a robust method of tracking facial features, in particular, lip contours, by using a multi-state mouth model and combining lip color, shape and motion information. Three lip states are ...

Measurements were taken from 18 patients operated on for cleft lip and palate, aged 19 to 27 years, and 162 control subjects matched for sex, age, and ethnic group. Nine soft-tissue landmarks on the lips were digitized by a three-dimensional electromagnetic instrument. From the landmarks, several linear distances (mouth width, philtrum width, vermilion height of upper and lower lip, total vermi...

lip is an important aspect of facial features affecting ones personality. a deformity of the lip characterized by excessive tissue sagging below the usual giving it thicker wider appearance is referred to as double lip. it is a rare occurrence with a proposed male predilection. this article is a report of a 20 years old male with this deformity who presented with the complaint of difficult spee...

This paper presents a new lip detection method based-on normalized RGB chromaticity diagram. The method consists of three stages: face detection, lip region localization and lip detection. The popular Viola-Jones face detection technique is employed in the face detection stage. In the lip detection stage, lip color is extracted using our novel color segmentation method that exploits the distrib...

In this study, harmine liposomes (HM-lip) were prepared through the thin-film hydration-pH-gradient method and then coated with N-trimethyl chitosan (TMC). Particle size, zeta potential, entrapment efficiency, and in vitro release of HM-lip and TMC-coated harmine liposomes (TMC-HM-lip) were also determined. Sprague Dawley rats were further used to investigate the pharmacokinetics in vivo. Reten...

Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that requires timely and inexpensive treatment. For this purpose, nanoemulsion with polyene macrolide antibiotic, or amphotericin B (NE-AmB), was developed. This study quantified the amount of drug permeated retained in intact lacerated human skin, simulating cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) processes. Toxicity macrophage keratinocyte cell lines, activi...