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Gummy Smile

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Gummy Smile
The appearance of a person’s mouth when smiling in which their teeth appear abnormally small, due to either a high lip line (hypermobilie lip), hyperplasia of the gums—which can occur in response to certain medications—e.g., phenytoin—or smaller than normal teeth due to developmental events, tooth eruption abnormalities, orthodontic treatments and even congenital defects
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gummy smile,
n condition in which gingival tissue is located more on the cervical third of the crowns than is normal, resulting in teeth that appear shorter and “gummy.”


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A group of youngsters clad in baggy sweaters, caps drawn low over shiny sunglasses, mill around curiously before they start to pop out their own dentures, showing off gummy smiles and striking gangster poses.
Many people are unhappy with the way their mouth looks because they have a gummy smile.
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