Restoring the Overhang of the Upper Lip in Repairs of the Oral Commissure

Repair of Transverse Facial Cleft in Hemifacial Microsomia: Long-Term Anthropometric Evaluation of Commissural Symmetry

“…Similarly, Wall and colleagues suggested that the vermilion at the commissure forms a small anterior web continuous with the upper lip and a larger posterior web continuous with the lower lip. 49 These structural subtleties allow a natural overlapping of the upper and lower lip segments and infolding of the vermilion at the depth of the commissure with the mouth in repose.…”