Observing your lips?

 The first thing most dentists notice in a person would be their Smile. Forget about them making eye contact. You greet a Dentist and their eyes would be on your teeth, instinctively.

Now, teeth are only one portion of the smile...there's a golden proportion in the smile and the face...I won't get into the details of that...sometimes talking about the teeth we need to remember a component like the Lips are an important part of a person's smile. A person can have a high lip line where more of the teeth and gums are seen.  Sometimes in a low lip line, while smiling the above teeth are barely seen.
So, what does the lip have to do with a habit correction?  I mentioned last time I would write about it.
There are a few habits with the lips which are very simple habits we get from childhood that if we correct, can make the world of difference in your adult life. If the child has started sucking the lip or thumb as a routine habit in childhood, the teeth can start protruding...this can be easily corrected with orthodontics at different ages, but correction of not sucking your lips will prevent one of the causative factors of your teeth protruding. In your children, an irritation and redness around their lips is an indication that they have acquired a bad habit. Please gently correct them not to do that...maybe reward them with a cuddle extra when they have refrained from the habit for a day.

Another habit involving the lip is biting the lips. Now, this can lead to something called Mucocele due to the local trauma to the lip, a huge transparent swelling or like a painless boil on the lip forms. It can be easily removed surgically but it won't come up simply by being aware and avoiding the habit!!!or brushing trauma 

Next month, I'll write about the myth about painful root canal treatments and how nowadays, it is completely or relatively painlessly done.