IADR Abstract Archives
The Lip Bumper Application in Various Patients
Objectives: The lip bumper can correct lip biting habit. This report describes how this appliance can be used on normal or special needs patient.
Methods: The first case is a 9-year old boy with Angle class II malocclusion, anterior teeth crowding, and proclination of upper incisors. He was diagnosed with lower lip biting habit. The treatment plane was to apply 2X4 fixed appliance combined with a lower lip bumper. After four months, the habit was eliminated, lower incisors uprighted and irregularity index decreased.
The second case is an 11-year old with cerebral palsy. He was suffered from bruxism and hypersalivation. He was treated with soft bite plate for years but invalid. Lower lip ulceration was the result of unconscious lip biting. The lower dentition was severe linclined lingually. Under general anesthesia, the patient were treated with lower lip bumper. After three months followed, the lower lip wound was healed.
Results: Bad oral habits such as lower lip biting can cause malocclusion or trauma. Blocking of such habit can improve occlusion and increase life quality. In normal patient, Lip biting needs to be corrected as early as possible. However, this treatment philosophy should also be thought and applied to special needs patients too. After wearing lip bumper, we found the quality of living of those with special needs improved greatly. Which also ease the burden of their guardian or parents.
Conclusions: Lip bumper is suitable to any kind of patients who suffered from bad lip biting habit.
Methods: The first case is a 9-year old boy with Angle class II malocclusion, anterior teeth crowding, and proclination of upper incisors. He was diagnosed with lower lip biting habit. The treatment plane was to apply 2X4 fixed appliance combined with a lower lip bumper. After four months, the habit was eliminated, lower incisors uprighted and irregularity index decreased.
The second case is an 11-year old with cerebral palsy. He was suffered from bruxism and hypersalivation. He was treated with soft bite plate for years but invalid. Lower lip ulceration was the result of unconscious lip biting. The lower dentition was severe linclined lingually. Under general anesthesia, the patient were treated with lower lip bumper. After three months followed, the lower lip wound was healed.
Results: Bad oral habits such as lower lip biting can cause malocclusion or trauma. Blocking of such habit can improve occlusion and increase life quality. In normal patient, Lip biting needs to be corrected as early as possible. However, this treatment philosophy should also be thought and applied to special needs patients too. After wearing lip bumper, we found the quality of living of those with special needs improved greatly. Which also ease the burden of their guardian or parents.
Conclusions: Lip bumper is suitable to any kind of patients who suffered from bad lip biting habit.