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    The document describes the anatomy and structures of the lips and oral cavity. It defines key terms like vermilion, cupid's bow, oral commissure, and hard and soft palates. The lips and surrounding structures are assessed with the face in a relaxed, neutral position for accuracy. Anatomical landmarks are important in examining and describing the lips, oral aperture, and structures within the oral cavity.

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    The document describes the anatomy and structures of the lips and oral cavity. It defines key terms like vermilion, cupid's bow, oral commissure, and hard and soft palates. The lips and surrounding structures are assessed with the face in a relaxed, neutral position for accuracy. Anatomical landmarks are important in examining and describing the lips, oral aperture, and structures within the oral cavity.

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    The document describes the anatomy and structures of the lips and oral cavity. It defines key terms like vermilion, cupid's bow, oral commissure, and hard and soft palates. The lips and surrounding structures are assessed with the face in a relaxed, neutral position for accuracy. Anatomical landmarks are important in examining and describing the lips, oral aperture, and structures within the oral cavity.

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     The appearance of the lips varies with facial

    movement. Smiling and crying can alter dramatically


    the shape of the upper lip, as do pursing or pouting.
    Therefore, the lips must be assessed when the subject
    has a relaxed (neutral) face: the eyes are open, the
    lips make gentle contact, and the teeth are slightly
    separated. The neck, jaw, and facial muscles should
    not be stretched nor contracted, and the face should
    be positioned using the Frankfurt horizontal (a line
    joining the orbitale and the porion) .
     The structures that surround the oral aperture . In the
    central region their superior border corresponds to the
    inferior margin of the base of the nose. Laterally, their
    limits follow the alar sulci and the upper and lower lips
    join at the oral commissures. The inferior limit of the lips
    in the central region is the mentolabial sulcus.
    Anatomically, the philtrum and its pillars are a part of the
    upper lip. The surface of the lip is comprised of four
    zones: hairy skin, vermilion border, vermilion and oral
    mucosa. The normal shape of the lips varies with age,
    and is influenced by ethnicity.
     Vermilion: The red part of the lips . It is covered
    with a specialized stratified squamous
    epithelium, which is in continuity with the oral
    mucosa of the gingivolabial groove. Confusingly,
    the vermilion itself is also often referred to as
    “the lips.”
     Vermilion border: The rim of paler skin that
    demarcates the vermilion from the surrounding
    skin.
     Cupid's bow: The contour of the line formed by the
    vermilion border of the upper lip. In a frontal view,
    this line resembles an archer's bow, which curves
    medially and superiorly from the commissures to the
    paramedian peaks located at the bases of the pillars
    of the philtrum (crista philtrae) with an inferior
    convexity lying between those peaks. The philtrum is
    the vertical groove in the midline of the upper lip
    bordered by these lateral pillars (ridges) .
     Oral mucosa: Stratified squamous non‐
    keratinized epithelium covering of the inner
    aspect of the oral cavity .
     The oral aperture that opens into the oral cavity
    proper . The opening is bounded by the upper and
    lower vermilion. The cavity comprises the alveolar
    arches with gums and teeth, the hard and soft palate,
    and the tongue, anchored to the floor of the mouth .
    The oral cavity leads into the oropharynx, bounded
    by the tonsillar pillars. Standards exist for measuring
    the length and height of the oral aperture .
     Oral commissure: The place where the lateral
    aspects of the vermilion of the upper and lower
    lips join. The cheilion is the anthropological
    landmark located at this site .
     Labial fissure: Slit‐like space between the lips;
    the oral vestibule.
     Oral Cavity: The space bounded superiorly by
    the hard and soft palates, laterally by the alveolar
    processes of the maxillary bone, and inferiorly by
    the tongue.
     Alveolar ridge: The U‐shaped bony crests of the
    upper and lower jaw in which the teeth are
    situated.
     Hard palate: Bony anterior two‐thirds of the
    roof of the mouth separating the nasal cavity
    from the oral cavity. The boundary of the hard
    and soft palates can be determined by palpation.
     Soft palate (velum palatinum): Posterior one
    third of the palate comprised of a fibromuscular
    fold of soft tissue suspended from the hard palate
    and separating the nasal and oral cavities.
     Uvula: A conical projection of soft tissue
    extending inferiorly from the posterior edge of
    the middle of the soft palate .
     https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.
    a.32602

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