Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2018

Lip repositioning - a new cosmetic treatment in periodontics

Dr. Parveen Ranga, Dr. Amita Sharma

Abstract :

An innovative cosmetic technique called lip repositioning technique is used for the reduction of excessive gingival display. In the present case report gummy smile was reduce by limiting the retraction of elevator muscles (e.g., zygomaticus minor, levatoranguli, orbicularis oris, and levatorlabiisuperioris). The technique is fulfilled by removing a strip of mucosa from maxillary buccal vestibule and creating a partial thickness flap between mucogingival junction and upperlip musculature, and suturing the lip mucosa with mucogingival junction, resulting in a narrow vestibule and restricted muscle pull, thereby reducing gingival display.

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Dr. Parveen Ranga, Dr. Amita Sharma, Lip repositioning‾a new cosmetic treatment in periodontics, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-5 | May-2018

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