Plasticity of the bridle of the upper lip in children: reviews of how children suffer plastic frenulum of the upper lip

The person in the mouth has three special muscles - bridles, which attach the lips and tongue to the jaws. One of these bridles is the bridle of the upper lip, due to which the lips are attached to the upper jawbone. At times at the child this most bridle appears truncated, and then operation is required. When it is done, how the children suffer the plastic of the bridle of the upper lip, read below.

Excursion to the Anatomy of

The bridle of the upper lip can be: mucous type( easily extensible), fibrous type( dense), muco-fibrous type( medium density and extensibility).The height of attachment of the frenum to the lip is also taken into account. It is low( it passes into the tissue of the gingival papilla), the middle( in the middle of the attached gingiva), high( in the region of the transverse fold of the upper lip).

Correctly located is a bridle, in which the lower edge of the bridle is 5-8 mm from the neck of the tooth, in the center of the alveolar process of the upper incisors. Anomaly of development - attachment of a bridle below the indicated distance, care for the front incisors. These cases require surgical intervention.

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Age for operation

Many parents are worried about the age at which a child should be operated to lengthen the bridle of the upper lip. Doctors recommend conducting this operation in the maternity hospital if an abnormality was detected immediately, and if a short frenum prevents the baby from sucking the mother's breast, there is a shortage of weight. If there are no problems with feeding and a normal weight set with the operation, you can wait.

A prerequisite for an operation to extend the short bridle of the upper lip is the eruption of all four incisors on the upper and lower gums, since otherwise the child may develop an incorrect bite. If you do not cut the short bridle of the upper lip, a gap( diastema) forms between the teeth, which will increase with age.

Reviews of the operation

Plastic surgery for bridle lips in children is a fairly common maxillofacial operation, therefore on the Internet, you can find many different opinions about this surgical intervention.

Nata999 wrote:

"Today, such an operation was performed by the eldest son. Our teeth are good, but a diastema appeared - we had to decide on the operation. The son was very afraid and wept, but it turned out that it was completely in vain.
The whole operation took 20 minutes. The son said that he just came, sat in an armchair to the aunt-dentist, the doctor turned on cartoons and began to "watch the teeth."He did not even feel how something was smeared on his gum and an anesthetic injection was made. In general, everything went "with a bang."We hope that now the teeth will grow even ".

Love K. writes:

"And our daughter had to do such an operation. Many people write here that it does not hurt at all. We confirm - it really is! The operation went off quickly, my daughter did not even have time to get scared. The only thing that really upset her, so it's a ban at first time to go to the dance. In general, the first week we were recommended to exclude physical activities. "