GUMMY SMILE CORRECTION

A gummy smile is an excessive display of gum when smiling normally. It is considered by most to be unattractive. In can a consequence of an excessive maxilla (upper jaw bone), a short upper lip or a combination. Treatment can range from aesthetic treatment with veneers to plastic surgical procedures to the gum, the lip, to bone re-sculpting all the way to orthognathic (jaw) surgery and orthodontics.

Each case must be treated on its own merits and only with the full endorsement of the treatment.

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