Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically

Lip is an important aspect of facial features affecting ones personality. A deformity of the lip characterized by excessive tissue sagging below the usual giving it thicker wider appearance is referred to as double lip. It is a rare occurrence with a proposed male predilection. This article is a rep...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Titiksha, Chawla, Kirti, Lamba, Arundeep Kaur, Faraz, Farukh, Tandon, Shruti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Society for Plastic Surgeons 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853696
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author Aggarwal, Titiksha
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Faraz, Farukh
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description Lip is an important aspect of facial features affecting ones personality. A deformity of the lip characterized by excessive tissue sagging below the usual giving it thicker wider appearance is referred to as double lip. It is a rare occurrence with a proposed male predilection. This article is a report of a 20 years old male with this deformity who presented with the complaint of difficult speech and poor aesthetics. There was no other history patient being systemically healthy. It was successively treated with a simple surgical technique without recurrence over a period of 12 months.
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spelling pubmed-51093942016-11-16 Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically Aggarwal, Titiksha Chawla, Kirti Lamba, Arundeep Kaur Faraz, Farukh Tandon, Shruti World J Plast Surg Case Report Lip is an important aspect of facial features affecting ones personality. A deformity of the lip characterized by excessive tissue sagging below the usual giving it thicker wider appearance is referred to as double lip. It is a rare occurrence with a proposed male predilection. This article is a report of a 20 years old male with this deformity who presented with the complaint of difficult speech and poor aesthetics. There was no other history patient being systemically healthy. It was successively treated with a simple surgical technique without recurrence over a period of 12 months. Iranian Society for Plastic Surgeons 2016-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5109394/ /pubmed/27853696 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aggarwal, Titiksha
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Lamba, Arundeep Kaur
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Tandon, Shruti
Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically
title Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically
title_full Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically
title_fullStr Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically
title_full_unstemmed Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically
title_short Congenital Double Lip: A Rare Deformity Treated Surgically
title_sort congenital double lip: a rare deformity treated surgically
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853696
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