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Oral Fissure and Lips

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The oral fissure and the lips represent the landmarks delineating the oral cavity from the outside world. The lips and their associated musculature play an important role in esthetics, mimics, and nonverbal communication. Furthermore, the level of the so-called “smile line” has become an important issue in esthetic dentistry. This chapter describes in detail the anatomy of the oral fissure and the lips, their neurovascular supply, the perioral musculature, and its role in facial expression.

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  1. University of Bern School of Dental Medicine Department of Oral Surgery and Stomatology, Bern, Switzerland

    Thomas von Arx

  2. Department of Anatomy Biochemistry & Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Scott Lozanoff

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von Arx, T., Lozanoff, S. (2017). Oral Fissure and Lips. In: Clinical Oral Anatomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41993-0_2

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