Reposicionamento labial na promoção do sorriso: relatos de caso

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Ary Joazeiro [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/203280; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2019-04-18/000911928.pdf
• topic: Sorriso; Estética dentária; Lábio; Smiling

The esthetic requirements in the practical routine of dental clinic are increasing considerably over the last few years. The excessive gingival display, commonly described as gummy smile, has been receiving a bigger emphasis in recent dentistry literature specially because it is a usual complaint of many patients - since the condition may influence in self-esteem and social network. There are several causes that may lead to a gummy smile. When it is related to lip mobility, not periodontal or severe bone factors, the lip repositioning surgery it's a viable treatment choice. The surgery involves a programed excision of part of the maxilla alveolar mucosa bilateral to the labial frenulum, followed by a lip suture in a position closer to the mucogengival junction, which results in lowering the vestibule's depth leading to lower lip mobility. Therefore, the gingival display also decreases. In this presented clinical cases, the patients are in an average age of 24, healthy and non-smokers, and have complaints about the esthetic of high smile. They went through the surgical procedure of lip repositioning and the satisfactory results reached their expectations. These case reports showed that the surgical technique it's a predictable and advantageous option to correct the so called gummy smile