title: Bilateral lower lip mucoceles: cause of functional malocclusion in a three-year-old child.
abstract: The case report of a three-year-old girl is presented, who had two nontender, bluish, fluctuant swellings diagnosed as superficial mucoceles present since the child was a few days old. The child had a unilateral crossbite with the mandibular midline shifted almost one tooth width to the left, a longstanding function adaptation producing malocclusion. The mucoceles were surgically removed, and the cross-bite disappeared.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Meechan
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Blair
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008047:Lip Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000209:etiology*; D009078:Mucocele / Q000150:complications*