{"title":"Gummy Smile Correction Using Different Techniques","authors":"H. Ahmed, S. Saleh, M. Salim","doi":"10.21608/aadj.2018.53930","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"objective: To compare and evaluate two different techniques used to correct the gummy smile cases. Methods: This study was carried out upon 14 patients. The studied cases were divided into 2 groups, the first group included 7 cases were underwent intrusive technique only, the second group included 7 cases were underwent intrusive technique in addition laser assisted lip repositioning procedure. Pre-and post-treatment extraoral frontal view photographs during smile were taken and the amount of gingival displays(GD) were measured. Results & conclusion: Data of the study showed that the laser assisted lip repositioning procedures with intrusion were more effective than intrusion technique only in treatment of gummy smile cases, P<0.05.","PeriodicalId":136230,"journal":{"name":"Al-Azhar Assiut Dental Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Al-Azhar Assiut Dental Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21608/aadj.2018.53930","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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objective: To compare and evaluate two different techniques used to correct the gummy smile cases. Methods: This study was carried out upon 14 patients. The studied cases were divided into 2 groups, the first group included 7 cases were underwent intrusive technique only, the second group included 7 cases were underwent intrusive technique in addition laser assisted lip repositioning procedure. Pre-and post-treatment extraoral frontal view photographs during smile were taken and the amount of gingival displays(GD) were measured. Results & conclusion: Data of the study showed that the laser assisted lip repositioning procedures with intrusion were more effective than intrusion technique only in treatment of gummy smile cases, P<0.05.