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Actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow. [1]A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile.
Skin grafting is a surgical procedure where a piece of healthy skin, also known as the donor site, is taken from one body part and transplanted to another, often to cover damaged or missing skin. [12] Before surgery, the location of the donor site would be determined, and patients would undergo anesthesia. [13]
The aesthetic ideal of a mouth with youthful lips—shaped like a lozenge—features an upper lip with a pronounced Cupid's bow, and much fullness to each lip; however, such an ideal physiognomy declines with age, and the lips shrink and lose anatomic definition, as the lips sag, which affects the aesthetics of the smile, by revealing less of the teeth during a relaxed smile.
Diagram of a Z-plasty procedure. Z-plasty is a versatile plastic surgery technique that is used to improve the functional and cosmetic appearance of scars.It can elongate a contracted scar or rotate the scar tension line.
The Joker's hair is stringy, unkept, and dyed green. His face is covered by a cracked, smeared and runny layer of white clown makeup, while his sunken eyes are thickly rimmed in black and his teeth are yellowed. [47] A red grin is sloppily painted across his mouth and cheeks, covering the facial scars of a Glasgow smile. [27]
The oral surgeon also performs the midpalatal osteotomy to allow the break in the inter-maxillary suture. The surgeon, while performing the LeFort 1 osteotomy, may separate the pterygoid plates during this procedure. This separation of the plates is termed as Pterygomaxillary disjunction (PMD). Some of the surgeons are cautious in their ...
Oral and maxillofacial surgery [ edit on Wikidata ] Maxillomandibular advancement ( MMA ) or orthognathic surgery , also sometimes called bimaxillary advancement ( Bi-Max ), or maxillomandibular osteotomy ( MMO ), is a surgical procedure or sleep surgery which moves the upper jaw ( maxilla ) and the lower jaw ( mandible ) forward.
Lip sewing or mouth sewing, the operation of stitching together human lips, is a form of body modification. It may be carried out for aesthetic or religious reasons or as a form of protest . Sutures are often used to stitch the lips together, though sometimes piercings are made with needle blades or cannulas and monofilament is threaded through ...