Satisfaction Of Adult Patients With Gummy Smile Treated By Botulinum Toxin A Injection

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of the proposal study is to answer the question of how to manage gummy smiles due to hypermobile upper lip with less invasive and low risk level procedure . This trial will help the practitioners and the patients in taking the convenient decision to correct the gumminess to restore lip-gingival-dental harmony and enhance smile asthetics.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: abobotulinumtoxinA; Botulinum Toxins; Botulinum Toxins, Type A; incobotulinumtoxinA; onabotulinumtoxinA

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults with age range from 18 - 30 years.

• Excessive gingival display more than 3 mm during smiling.

• Patients having hypermobile upper lip with or without (mild / moderate) vertical maxillary excess.

• Patients with normal morphology of clinical crowns.

• Normal lip separation (ILG) at rest

• Medically free subjects.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with systemic diseases or neuromuscular disorders.

• Gummy smile with gingival display more than 8 mm during smiling.

• Severly long face (VME) patients.

• Patients with periodontal disease or gingival hyperplasia .

• Medically compromised patients contraindicated for surgery .

• Pregnant or lactating female patients.

• Patients with inadequate attached gingiva .