Muscle Groups Involved in the Gengival Smile
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Contrary to what is stated, the gingival smile is not only caused by the upper lip lift muscle and nose wing! We see many treatments performed with Botulinum, on these muscles with disastrous results, leading to upper lip ptosis problems or with the the “joker smile” result. Often we have an interaction of other muscles that act individually or together and knowing how to diagnose the type of action cause by these muscular interactions is fundamental to obtain the satisfactory final result in Orofacial aesthetics! Muscles that may involve the gingival smile may be the lifter of the upper lip and nose wing, upper lip lifter, zigomáticos major, depressor of the tip of the lower lip. All these muscles act individually or together and will interfere with the excursion of the arching off the upper lip. How can we identify which muscle or muscle groups are involved in the case of excessive gingival tissue exposure?We should analyze the topographic surface of the nasogenoid sulcus as the patient at rest, and without smilling. When there is the action of the upper lip and nose lift muscle, this nasal labial groove will be extensive starting to give lip commissure up to the height of the nasolabial fossa (Figure 1). In the case of the association of the upper lip and nose lift muscles with the upper lip lifting muscle when examining the topography of the nasogenic area, we will have a groove that will start in the nasolabial fossa and as it walks in the Direction of the labial commissure we will have the disappearance of this groove (Figure 2).In some situations we will associate with the gingival smile the depressor muscle of the tip of the nose, which will cause the formation of a groove in the superior region of the orbicular is muscle of the upper lip, and the fall of the tip of the nose (Figure 3). When we analyze the profile of a patient with this type of muscular dynamics we will observe that the upper lip will be retracted.Excessive exposure of the posterior teeth comes from the action and from the modiolo point. This point is the insertion of the larger zygomatic muscle (Figure 4). We must evaluate the dynamics of the antagonist muscles, such as the depressor muscle of the lower lip and the depressor muscle at the angle of the mouth, which can lead to the exposure of the lower teeth after the use of the toxin in the upper lip lift muscles (Figure 5).
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Wilson Carlos Mendes
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- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000247
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