| DENTAL SCIENCE - CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 6 | Page : 794-796 |
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Lip repositioning surgery for correction of excessive gingival display
Santhanakrishnan Muthukumar1, Shanmuganathan Natarajan2, Seenivasan Madhankumar2, Jayakrishnakumar Sampathkumar3
1 Department of Periodontics, Private Practice, Beyond Smiles Dental Care, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
3 Department of Prosthodontics, Ragas Dental College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Santhanakrishnan Muthukumar
Department of Periodontics, Private Practice, Beyond Smiles Dental Care, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-7406.163567
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Esthetic demands have considerably increased over the years in routine clinical practice. A pleasant smile can give supreme confidence to an individuals personality. However, a perfect smile is dictated by a perfect balance of the white (teeth) and pink (gingival) display. This balance can be managed different treatment modalities, which is based on proper diagnosis. This case report demonstrates a successful management of gummy smile with a lip-repositioning procedure in a patient with an incompetent upper lip. This was accomplished by removing a partial thickness strip of mucosa from the maxillary buccal vestibule and suturing the lip mucosa to the mucogingival line. This resulted in a narrower vestibule and restricted muscle pull, thereby resulting incompetent lips and reduced gingival display during smiling. |
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