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Lips and Chin

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The area surrounding the mouth is constituted by two anatomically and surgically related subunits: the lips and the chin. The lips are important structures that dominate in facial aesthetics but are also valuable in function being a motile organ. Its shape and thickness differs between the upper and lower lip and varies significantly from individual to individual. Structurally each lip is composed of the orbicularis muscle that is invested extraorally by the skin and subcutaneous tissue, intraorally by mucosa and submucosa, and over its free edge by the vermilion. The chin is the round-shaped area just inferior to the lower lip and corresponds to the osseous chin. Its skin, the subcutaneous tissue, and the chin muscles structure the chin. The perioral area provides flaps that mainly reconstruct only the lips and the chin. These flaps are largely based on an arterial circle that surrounds the mouth.

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    Vasilios K. Thomaidis MD, DDS, PhD

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Thomaidis, V.K. (2014). Lips and Chin. In: Cutaneous Flaps in Head and Neck Reconstruction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41254-7_6

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