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dog-ear

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dog-ear
a defect in skin created when an elliptical surgical incision is too short or one side is longer than the other.


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Making the incision long and tapering it to the mid-body of the mandible will prevent the dog-ear deformity that typically occurs following standard submental excision.
These measurement solutions can be used in tire building and other applications, including width monitoring, dog-ear splice detection, centerline monitoring, center guiding, edge guiding and complex profile feature-based guiding.
This in spite of repeated admonitions, "Never write in a book, nor dog-ear a page, nor set a book face-down on its open pages.
 
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