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Soft tissue impingement and lip form in Iraqi teenagers | ||
| Journal of baghdad college of dentistry | ||
| Article 1, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 80-83 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Akram F. Al-Huwaizi; Wael S. Al-Alousi; Ausama A. Al-Mulla | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Soft tissue impingement and lip form have often been overlooked in previous epidemiological surveys. Materials and Methods: About seven thousand 13 year olds with no history of orthodontic treatment were selected from six governorates (Baghdad the capital, Ninevah, Basrah, Diyala, Anbar and Najaf). An intra-oral clinical examination was used to assess traumatic overbite causing soft tissue impingement and the lip form of each student. Results: Soft tissue impingement was found in 2.7% (2.5% palatally and 0.2% labially). Normal lip form was found in 80.7%, contracting lip form in 14.7% and lip trap in 4.6% of the sample. All the previous were non-significantly related to gender and residency. Conclusion: Iraqi children present a much mre favorable lip form than Western children | ||
| Keywords | ||
| soft tissue; Impingement; lip form | ||
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