Excessive gingival display-Etiology, diagnosis, and treatment modalities

Quintessence International

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 809-818

  Silberberg, Nir ^a   Goldstein, Moshe ^a   Smidt, Ami ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altered passive eruption; Diagnosis; Etiology; Excessive gingival display; Gummy smile; Vertical maxillary excess (VME)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLOR; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DENTAL CARE; ESTHETICS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GINGIVA; GINGIVA OVERGROWTH; GINGIVECTOMY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCISOR; LIP; LIP DISEASE; MALOCCLUSION; MAXILLA; ODONTOMETRY; ORAL SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH ARCH; TOOTH ERUPTION; TOOTH OCCLUSION; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ALVEOLECTOMY; COLOR; DENTAL ARCH; DENTAL OCCLUSION; DENTAL PLAQUE; ESTHETICS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; FACE; GINGIVA; GINGIVAL OVERGROWTH; GINGIVECTOMY; HUMANS; INCISOR; LIP; LIP DISEASES; MALOCCLUSION; MAXILLA; ODONTOMETRY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; SMILING; TOOTH ERUPTION;

EID: 78650147351     PISSN: 00336572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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