Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Jul 1982

Effect of Lip Training in Children with Short Upper Lip

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Page Range: 222 – 233
DOI: 10.1043/0003-3219(1982)052<0222:EOLTIC>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

A one-year study of the effects of a simple lip exercise on incompetent lips. Upper and lower lip length were increased, and the interlabial gap reduced.

Copyright: Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists

Contributor Notes

Dr. Ingervall is Professor and Chairman of the Orthodontic Department, University of Bern, Switzerland. He holds a D.D.S. degree from Malmö, Sweden and Odont. dr. from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, where he was also named docent in Orthodontics

Dr. Eliasson is chief dentist in a children's dental clinic of the Public Dental Health Service of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a dental graduate (D.D.S.) of the Royal Dental School in Malmö

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