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KMID : 0358819860130030437
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Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1986 Volume.13 No. 3 p.437 ~ p.440
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SIMPLE SURGICAL CORRECTION OF GUMMY SMILE
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Chang Sang-Suk
Ham Kee-Suk
Kim Soo-Chul
Park Yong-Tae
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Abstract
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In out trasitional concept, it was believed to be unlucky and chaste when a young woman has a gummy smile or smiling showed the intraoral strutures.
The intraoral structures were thought to be synonymous with sexual organs in the classical concept, therefore most of our ladies habbitually hide the smiling mouth with the hand even though no structural defects of the mouth existed. Gummy smile have also been considered big defect in women from the aspect of physical beauty, so they want to correct the defect not only out of fatalism but for beauty.
There are two modalities of treament to corrct the gummy smile. One is partial excision of the superior levator labi muscle and the other is an adhesive procedure on supragingival sulcus between the labial muscle and the maxillary periosteum. We carried out modified technique of the later on 7 gummy smile patients during the last two years and reviewed them.
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